You keep waving “the oath” like a magic stick that forces doctors to work until collapse the moment government fails them. That is not how any version of the Hippocratic Oath reads. The actual text (modern version still used in many schools) says: “I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures that are required… according to my ability and judgment.” It also requires the physician to “do no harm.” There is zero clause that says “ignore fatigue, ignore shift end, ignore missing beds, ignore unpaid overtime, and keep working even when the system is broken.” Ability and judgment include recognising when you are too exhausted to practise safely. That is not selfishness; it is the only way the next patient does not get harmed by a burnt-out doctor. Telling people “if you can’t do the job, stop going to medical school” is the lazy slogan of someone who has never done a 36-hour call in an understaffed Nigerian public hospital with no beds, no oxygen, and relatives screaming that protocol is optional. Medicine is not a suicide pact. The oath never required doctors to die for patients or to pretend systemic collapse is their personal moral failure. If you want infinite free labour regardless of conditions, invent a new oath. The real one does not say what you claim.