Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm since Hippocrates

Hippocrates--Father of Medicine.

*Professor of Medicine, T.N. Medical College (Retd.), Hon. Physician, Bhatia Hospital, Mumbai H (460 B.C. 370 B.C.) was a Greek physician universally known as father of medicine. Very little is known about what he actually thought and did. Scanty information about Hippocrates is found in the writings of Aristotle and Plato. Ancient biographer of Hippocrates Soranus mentions that he was born on ...

Making medical doctors: science and medicine at Vanderbilt since Flexner

potency, induction, competence, and regulation were widely used as categories ofexplanation in this period. Now, when we have the technical means to investigate the inner workings of cells, this heritage is available not as a set of explanations but as a set of problems requiring solution. Probably no one did more in this vital task than Johannes Holtfreter, who receives extensive coverage in t...

P4 Medicine versus Hippocrates.

Hippocrates was the first to raise awareness of medicine as a science. He asserted the body being a unified whole and emphasized the importance of preventive and predictive medicine, spurring physicians to foster patient collaboration. Recent achievements today have permitted a new approach "P4 medicine" - Predictive, Preventive, Personalized and Participatory - with the aim of depicting an ind...

Creating Harm without Doing Wrong

In three studies, participants assigned civil liability at moderate to high rates to injurers whose conduct was not negligent, holding them to a strict liability standard. The law would generally not assign liability in these cases, instead only imposing it when the actor was negligent or when the activities were “abnormally dangerous.” Participants are more likely to assign liability in the ab...

Doing Harm: Physicians, Enemy Combatants, and Torture.