The General Medical Council, who holds my professional registration provides guidance to their interpretation of aspects of the Hippocratic Oath. Similarly, registration bodies in many other countries run in concordat.

The declaration of Geneva and other similar stances provide interpretation and guidance to what is a translation of ancient Greek standards and practices. My copy of the oath is indeed in Ancient greek, and as I can't read it, it is purely something for the office wall, together with a dried oak leaf from the tree on Kos that Hippocrates didn't preach from.

The term Hippocratic Oath is a guide. The GMC guidelines and responsibilities are what the term refers to. Terribulus either knows this and is using his usual "try to make a Musket look a twat" again or is ignorant of it, in which case he might have said so.

My good friend Musket was involved in ridding these shores of someone who assisted in executions in Kuwait and I am rather proud to call him a friend for his overall work in helping raise standards in healthcare, especially governance and assurance, using his background as a retired CEO in industry.

What I do know from reading of the Kuwait case is this; The doctor left the country prior to a fitness to practice hearing writing to voluntarily remove himself from the specialist register, saving a drawn out hearing. The GMC case was to be based on the following activities;

Declaring a person to be medically fit enough for execution.

Prescribing sedatives to a level consistent with the Kuwaiti penal code that a prisoner must still be aware of what is happening.

Counter signing the "drop calculations" for the rope length to ensure maximum chance of successful fracture of 2nd & 3rd cervical vertebrae.

Pronouncing the prisoner dead is not an issue, although anticipation of an otherwise healthy person dying and being assigned to declare death at the appropriate point before the execution could be construed as assisting in an execution.

Terribulus is wrong to say that none of this is legally binding, as the principle of the Hippocratic Oath runs a thread through our registration and to touch a patient for purposes that require a doctor without legal registration is assault, a criminal offence.

Why he insists in trying to ridicule those who point out his own shortcomings is not what this thread is about, but for those who laugh at him, I believe this is a good opportunity.