The modern scientific physician: 2. Medical science versus scientific medicine.

Moses Maimonides: rabbi or medicine.

The great medieval Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides was also a practicing physician who contributed a number of important works to medical literature. Modern students of these treatises have made extravagant claims about Maimonides' scientific outlook and have attributed to him important discoveries and innovations. Viewed in its historical and religious content, Maimonides' medical work app...

The Flexner Report ― 100 Years Later

The Flexner Report of 1910 transformed the nature and process of medical education in America with a resulting elimination of proprietary schools and the establishment of the biomedical model as the gold standard of medical training. This transformation occurred in the aftermath of the report, which embraced scientific knowledge and its advancement as the defining ethos of a modern physician. S...

The modern scientific physician: 1. Can practice be science?

Rebuttal: Is evidence-based medicine overrated in family medicine?: No.

YES. There are many points of agreement between our position and that of Drs Labrecque and Cauchon.1 We agree that data from scientific research are an important component of medicine and are one of the key distinguishing features of modern medicine. We agree that medicine needs to incorporate patient preferences and values and that clinicians should be expert and humane. However, we think it i...

Abolhassan Ahmad bin Mohammad Tabari Taranji; The famous Iranian Physician

Tabaristan (current Mazandaran), in northern Iran and the south of the Caspian Sea, is considered as one of the scientific and medical centers in both scientific and Islamic worlds. The emergence of numerous scholars in this area indicates the centrality of science in this amazing geography. One of the greatest men of this land is Abolhassan Ahmad bin Mohammad Tabari Taranji. Information about ...