--- title: How New Doctors Are Redefining the Hippocratic Oath description: Learn how new classes of doctors are redefining the Hippocratic oath, we need to reimagine the refugee camp and more. canonical: https://time.com/4505868/how-new-doctors-are-redefining-the-hippocratic-oath/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-23T16:00:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:28.503Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How New Doctors are Redefining the Hippocratic Oath og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4505868/how-new-doctors-are-redefining-the-hippocratic-oath/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How New Doctors are Redefining the Hippocratic Oath twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How New Doctors Are Redefining the Hippocratic Oath by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Sep 23, 2016 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Sep 23, 2016 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Learn how new classes of doctors are redefining the Hippocratic oath.**](https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/21/hippocratic-oath-medical-students-doctors/) By Melissa Bailey in STAT **2\.** [**We need to reimagine the refugee camp.**](http://www.citylab.com/housing/2016/09/rethinking-the-refugee-camp/500804/) By Marie Doezema in CityLab **3\.** [**Want to live a better life? Think like a designer.**](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/fashion/design-thinking-stanford-silicon-valley.html?%5Fr=0) By Steven Kurutz in the New York Times **4\.** [**Could public pressure push drug makers to do more for global health?**](https://theconversation.com/how-can-we-get-pharma-companies-to-do-more-for-global-health-try-ranking-them-62888) By Nicole Hassoun in the Conversation **5\.** [**Could we really build a Star Trek-like warp drive someday?**](https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/star-treks-warp-drive-might-become-a-reality-59c5f69f84a0#.pfxlbbux0) By Ethan Siegel in Starts With a Bang  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4505868/how-new-doctors-are-redefining-the-hippocratic-oath/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4505868/how-new-doctors-are-redefining-the-hippocratic-oath/"},"headline":"How New Doctors Are Redefining the Hippocratic Oath","datePublished":"2016-09-23T16:00:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:28.503Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4505868/how-new-doctors-are-redefining-the-hippocratic-oath/","keywords":["Innovation","medicine","Refugees","Star Trek","global health"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4505868/how-new-doctors-are-redefining-the-hippocratic-oath/","name":"How New Doctors Are Redefining the Hippocratic Oath"}}]}] ```