HOSPITAL PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS.

Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Census of Indian Physicians and Surgeons

Ethics for physicians and surgeons: consent.

A obrigação do médico de obter o consentimento de seu paciente para um determinado tratamento proposto repousa no princípio ético de autonomia do paciente e no respeito às pessoas1. Neste contexto, o consentimento trata da “autorização autônoma para uma intervenção médica”, autorização esta realizada pelo próprio paciente2. Da mesma forma, obter o consentimento do paciente não se refere a um at...

Physicians and Surgeons in Ancient India

This paper briefly recapitulates the evolution of ancient medical classics its origin, the Physicians and Surgeons and their contributions in its mythological and historical background. The significance of this science in the ancient days is also evidenced by the existence, of the two seats of learning-Takshasila and Kasi-in all its prolific profundity.

Physicians and surgeons in sixteenth-century Venice.

THE RELATIONSHIP between physicians and surgeons was of fundamental concern to the medical profession in the sixteenth century as in other periods. The superior position enjoyed by the physicians has long been recognized. It was they who controlled medical education in the universities, and, to a considerable extent, medical practice in the towns. Their training, which in Italy included up to e...