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Hippocratic messages for modern medicine (the vindication of Hippocrates).
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  17567336     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Medicine feels the need to combine more than ever the traditional concepts of Hippocrates in perfect balance with the enormous power of modern biotechnology. In our times, the old message 'go back to Hippocrates' sounds like a utopian vision. On the other hand, technological progress tends to remove modern medicine from its anthropocentric mission. The realistic message for tomorrow's physicians must be 'to go forward' together with his perennial humanistic values and clinical messages, combining the recent advances of biotechnology with the Hippocratic rationalism, which is based on logical reasoning, on careful clinical examination, and on a whole humane approach to the patient and his environment. Today's physician can still learn from the Hippocratic heritage and will need to be an expert Hippocratic physician, ever more humane and competent to use all new methods and facilities of basic dermatological research.
Authors:
A Katsambas; S G Marketos
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Historical Article; Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology : JEADV     Volume:  21     ISSN:  0926-9959     ISO Abbreviation:  J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol     Publication Date:  2007 Jul 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2007-06-14     Completed Date:  2007-09-06     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9216037     Medline TA:  J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol     Country:  Netherlands    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  859-61     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Department of Dermatology of A. Sygros Hospital, National University of Athens, School of Medicine, Athens, Greece. akatsa@med.uoa.gr
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Ethics, Medical / history*
Greece
Greek World
Hippocratic Oath
History, Ancient
Humans
Philosophy, Medical / history*

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