Hippocrates

is to help and treat patients to the best of their abilities rather than to harm their patients. When doctors are in medical school and before they officially become doctor they must take an oath called the Hippocratic oath. This oath comes from Hippocrates “The Father of Medicine” and has been written over many times. This oath requires a new physician to swear upon a number of healing gods that he will uphold a number of professional ethical standards. The oath specifically says that a doctor…

available to medieval practitioners. He studied science, medicine, and the human body between the years of 129-216 AD. However, the people who played the biggest role in laying the foundation for medicine, and by far the most well known, were the Hippocrates. They wrote a collection of writings referred to as the Hippocratic Corpus. The Hippocratic Corpus was the first part in laying out the basic approach to health care. The most famous of all the writings is named the Hippocratic Oath, which…

My topic is on Psoriasis. I can remember the first time I seen it I was very young. Big blistery and red patches of scaly skin. I decided to pick this topic because I am interested in working in the dermatology field as a Nurse Practitioner. That means I will be dealing with and seeing all different types of skin problems and issues. My Aunt struggles with this disorder on a daily basis. I was interested in finding out the major impact it has on her life. Psoriasis is a chronic autoimmune…

intentional hastening of the death of the terminally ill patient even with a purpose to end their sufferings never was an unambiguous. Although the idea of euthanasia originated long time ago, the traditional medical ethics includes a prohibition since Hippocrates’ time until nowadays. “I neither give a deadly drug to anybody if asked for it, no make a suggestion to his effect” (Whose right to Die, page 2). Nevertheless, today the doctors have to bring up the question of euthanasia more…

Did you know that whenever you smell something, it triggers your senses, and the brain? There are five senses, and one is smell. The brain is a important organ in our body, it tells our body what to do, and what to not do. The person who studied the senses was Linda B. Buck, and the people who studied the brain was the Egyptians. Your senses let you know what is going on around you. The brain is the control center of the body. All information we have about prehistoric cultures comes from…

Abstract Depressive disorders are prevalent and continue to grow in the United States and globally. People have attempted to define depression since the beginning of time but in the 17th and 18th centuries, studies for depressive disorders began to utilize the scientific method. The introduction of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in 1952 increased the quality of diagnosis, assessment, and treatment for people exhibiting depressive symptoms. The DSM-5 published…

One in three people in the United States will have diabetes in their lifetimes. Over forty percent of Americans are obese (Forks). Everything points towards our diet playing a huge role in our health. Researchers have shown “if we eliminate or reduce refined processed and animal based foods we can prevent and in some cases reverse health problems by changing our diets to a whole-food plant-based diet” (Forks). The modern American diet is taking a toll on our health and our environment. Because…

Zeus, instead of using it for military development. This demonstrates their beliefs and superior economic prowess at the time. In addition, there were also significant developments in Science during the period of Classical Greece. For example, Hippocrates, a Greek physician, believed that diseases were not caused by gods and this was an excuse used by doctors to define the unexplainable, while Leucippus, a Greek philosopher and scientist, believed that matter was not created by a divine being…

the face of an eagle." (from the Book of Ezekiel, chapter 1, verse 10) Montgomery additionally attributes personality characteristics to each of the four faces, which he correlates to modern interpretations of the Four Temperaments and also to Hippocrates' ideas, compared below. four temperaments - earliest origins Ezekiel c.59…

“To be or not to be that is the question” ( Shakespeare III.i.64). In this famous Shakespearean soliloquy, Hamlet ponders a captivating question that presents itself to 5.7 million people annually (Critical Care Statistics). This frightening statistic describes the amount of people on the precipice of life or death. The elementary answer to this question is simply life support. It has the propensity to sustain life for an extended amount of time and even revive those who have fallen victim to…