Did the Hippocratic physician treat hopeless cases ?

Two 'hopeless' Urological Cases in Infants.

Physician Burnout: Let's Treat the Root Causes.

VICE PRESIDENT FOR JOURNAL MEDIA DIVISION AND STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS Craig Doane I n this issue we present “Tackling Burnout in Employed Physicians” (page 7). We feel compelled to do so because the problem isn’t going away. A recent article reported that the percentage of family physicians experiencing at least one symptom of burnout increased from 51 percent in 2011 to 63 percent in 2014. We c...

On 'Hippocratic' and 'Non-Hippocratic' Medical Writings.

ttemational Hippocrates Colloquium ( 13th : 2008 : Austin, Tex.), author. Ancient concepts of the Hippocratic : papers presented at the xmth International Hippocrates olloquium, Austin, Texas, August 2008 / edited by Lesley Dean-Jones and Ralph M. Rosen. p. ; cm. (Studies in ancient medicine, ISSN 0925-1421; volume 46) Includes bibliographical references and index. In English; two papers in Fre...

The Hippocratic tradition

Of twentieth-century physiologists, probably only Pavlov has been subjected to as much historical attention as Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (1857-1952). In addition to a large number of articles and obituaries, Lord Cohen of Birkenhead, Ragnar Granit, and Judith Swazey have written monographs on Sherrington, and E. G. T. Liddell's Discovery of the reflexes (1960) devoted a great deal of space ...

The Hippocratic Tradition.

The discovery of insulin has entirely changed the prognosis of diabetes in childhood. Whereas in pre-insulin days the outlook was almost hopeless, the patient seldom lived longer than two years, the prognosis now appears to be very favourable. Growth is perfectly normal as are physical andc mental activity, and there does not appear to be any increased susceptibility to infections although the ...