Parker, Robert (2017), Greek Gods Abroad

Greek Gods and Portuguese Pneumology: implementing HERMES.

The HERMES initiative (Harmonising Education in Respiratory Medicine for European Specialists), was created by the European Respiratory Society in 2005, and named after the Greek god of travellers and boundaries. The main goal is the European harmonisation of post-graduate education and training in respiratory medicine, promoting excellence of care and professional mobility. The development str...

THE PERSIANS. LOST CIVILIZATIONS Geoffrey Parker and Brenda Parker, Reaktion Book, 2017, 208 pages

2017 Robert W. Berliner Award for Excellence in Renal Physiology.

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The patron-gods of health and of longevity, Chinese, Greek and Indian.

Man needed health as individual but power of reproduction to maintain his race. The early man used single plants to cure his complaints. Thus arose herbalism. To increase his reproductive power he preferred a mixture of drugs. Thus we find two patron gods in all important systems of medicine. There were two theories: like makes like and Blood=e Scu l, and Redness is its active principle. In Chi...

Greek medical students' career choices indicate strong tendency towards specialization and training abroad.

The aim of the study was to investigate the career choices, location preferences and criteria among medical students in Greece. We applied a questionnaire-based analysis using a sample of 591 students of four out of seven Greek Medical Schools. The sample included students of all academic years. The vast majority of students wish to specialize (97.6%), while general practice gathered a very low...