I am the odd man out in a family of medical folk. My maternal grandfather was a physician; his daughter, my mother, was a medical technologist; my mother-in-law, a nurse. My brother is a physician; so ...

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Doctors still invoke the Hippocratic Oath, which classics scholar Robin Lane Fox refers to as “the essential ethic of Western medicine” (although, as he characteristically points out, its actual links ...

Even throughout medical school and his work as a physician, Dr. Jon Hallberg, a professor of family medicine at the University of Minnesota, never let go of his interest in the arts. After working ...

Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity ~ Hippocrates Medicine has always had a close relationship to the liberal arts. Many great thinkers have been physicians: ...

Professor Arturo Castiglioni, 66, of the University of Padua in Italy, is a refugee teaching at Yale. The son of a rabbi, he was born in Trieste, brought up an Austrian. After World War I, when Italy ...

Hippocrates (c. 460 – c. 370 BC), was a Greek physician who is often referred to as the "Father of Western Medicine." Along with creating the Hippocratic Oath, his wisdom and sage-like advice, such as ...

Aspirin remains one of the most inexpensive drugs in the pharmacy. A familiar brand name tablet costs less than 6 cents a pill. A bottle containing 300 tablets will set you back under $17. Despite the ...

From Ayurveda to the teachings of Hippocrates, medicine's earliest traditions advanced a belief that the gut was the foundation of all health and disease. It wasn't until recently, however, that ...

To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always’, these timeless words echo deeply the realm of palliative care, ...

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