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Syriac Galen Palimpsest is a cool project and great to know that philological research still continues run by @peterepormann and @SBhayro alc.manchester.ac.uk/classics-and-a…
Earlier @peterepormann had the #ERC funded Hippocrates aphorisms project research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/proj…
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I've posted about this already, but "FIRST DO NO HARM" is:
* Not from the Hippocratic Oath
* Not accurately translated from Hippocrates
* Not actually a goal of medicine
(How could I say such a thing?!)
* Is very poorly understood.
#medtwitter #MedEd #hippocrates
I've posted about this already, but "FIRST DO NO HARM" is:
* Not from the Hippocratic Oath
* Not accurately translated from Hippocrates
* Not actually a goal of medicine
(How could I say such a thing?!)
* Is very poorly understood.
#medtwitter #MedEd #hippocrates
If we did no harm, we would never do surgery. We would never give meds. We would never anaesthsitize patients, or attempt to replace lungs.
The actual goal (and oath!) is to BALANCE BENEFIT VS HARM so we endeavour to do more good than harm. We minimize harm when possible.
The actual goal (and oath!) is to BALANCE BENEFIT VS HARM so we endeavour to do more good than harm. We minimize harm when possible.
The Greek ὠφελέειν ή μὴ βλάπτειν (incorrectly translated to Latin as "primum non nocere") is a passage from the Hippocratic treatise on Epidemics "In illnesses one should keep two things in mind, to be useful rather than cause no harm".
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Centuries ago, like now, there were hostels, posadas or taverns where food was served in exchange for money, as in a thermopolium in Rome (snack-bar) where we, readers of @LRB @TwitterBooks @nytimes @NewYorker @washingtonpost, would often go
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Centuries ago, like now, there were hostels, posadas or taverns where food was served in exchange for money, as in a thermopolium in Rome (snack-bar) where we, readers of @LRB @TwitterBooks @nytimes @NewYorker @washingtonpost, would often go
