Hippocratic Oath 2026 - Professor Giordano's comments and best wishes to the new doctors

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 life also deserve a State and institutions that safeguard the dignity of those who care.

As Giuseppe Moscati reminded us: ‘Not science, but charity transformed the world.’

Congratulations to all the new doctors.

But from tomorrow we need respect, investment and courage. Not perfunctory applause.