The medical profession has traded its birthright for a mess of pottage called evidence-based medicine, writes Stephen Hughes, M.D., in the spring issue of the Journal of American Physicians and ...
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 ...
Traditional Greek Medicine refers to ancient Greek practices that have aided in the healing of diseases and the maintenance ...
The Hippocratic Oath. Sculpture by Wilfried Fitzenreiter. Credit: SeptemberWoman / Wikimedia Commons That is to say, it is almost certain that the author of the oath was not Hippocrates himself, and ...
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 ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about contemporary culture and the arts. Lane Fox’s work begins with a study of bodies in Homer and a striking insight: ...
The BMJ is an international peer reviewed medical journal and a fully "online first" publication. Our publishing model–"continuous publication"– means that all articles appear on bmj.com before being ...
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