Today at Città della Scienza (Napoli) the Hippocratic Oath 2026 was celebrated. A symbolic moment, certainly. But the real oath is not made with a formula spoken before an audience: it is shown every day, in overwhelmed emergency rooms, in understaffed wards, during brutal shifts and in the continual exodus of young doctors from a system that too often leaves them alone. Medicine cannot become only a permanent heroic sacrifice. Those who today swear to care for and protect li
