are those who pass the baton to their successors to run the next leg of the race. Blessed are those who make their successors succeed. Hippocrates was the father of medicine and the author of the Hippocratic oath. Until recent years most medical schools required graduates to subscribe to these ancient words. It was a noble tradition of promising to care for the sick without regard to payment and to always heal and never harm. The oath also promises to teach the art and science of