Letter: No obligations

Sir: I have no comment to make about supplying contraception to the under-16s, but I write regarding 'a doctor's obligations under the Hippocratic Oath' (Letters, 9 November). I and the vast majority of my colleagues who have graduated from British medical schools in the last 15-20 years have never taken this oath, and so have no obligations under it.

Yours,

JOHN LEIGH

Washington, Tyne and Wear

9 November