'The Osteopathic Oath'

Deze moderne versie van de Eed van Hippocrates, bedoeld om gebruikt te worden voor de pas afgestudeerde osteopaten, begon als een voorstel van Frank E. MacCracken, DO aan zijn vakgenootschap in de staat California.

Binnen een jaar ging dit voorstel van de staat California naar de nationale vakorganisatie en een commissie werd in het leven geroepen om  - onder auspiciën van de Aangesloten Osteopathie Opleidingen - de tekst van deze eed te gaan voorbereiden.
 
Leden van deze commissie waren Dr. Frank E. MacCracken (voorzitter) en Drs. R.C. McCaughan, Walter V. Goodfellow en Edward T. Abbott.

De eerste versie van de Osteopatische Eed werd gebruikt van 1938 tot 1954 (in dat jaar werden er kleine aanvullende voorstellen aangenomen).

Deze aangepaste versie is nu in gebruik sinds 1954.

Dr. Andrew Taylor Still 

I do hereby affirm my loyalty to the profession I am about to enter.

I will be mindful always of my great responsibility to preserve the health and the life of my patients, to retain their confidence and respect both as a physician and a friend, who will guard their secrets with scrupulous honor and fidelity, to perform faithfully my professional duties, to employ only those recognized methods of treatment consistent with good judgment and with my skill and ability, keeping in mind always nature's laws and the body's inherent capacity for recovery.

I will be ever vigilant in aiding in the general welfare of the community, sustaining its laws and institutions, not engaging in those practices which will in any way bring shame or discredit upon myself or my profession.

I will give no drugs for deadly purposes to any person, though it may be asked of me.

I will endeavor to work in accord with my colleagues in a spirit of progressive cooperation and never by word or by act cast imputations upon them or their rightful practices.

I will look with respect and esteem upon all those who have taught me my art.
To my college I will be loyal and strive always for its best interests and for the interests of the students who will come after me.
I will be ever alert to further the application of basic biologic truths to the healing arts and to develop the principles of osteopathy which were first enunciated by
Dr. Andrew Taylor Still.