What Would Hippocrates Do?
August 26, 2010
Before Hippocrates, ancient Greek healers served simultaneously as magicians, priests and cult leaders.1 By the fifth century BC, Hippocrates “dissociated medicine from magic, facts from fiction, histories from lies, healing art from philosophy, and gods from men.”2 In so doing, he transformed the previous theocratic system into one based on rational thought, diagnosis and treatment.3 … Continue reading...