Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it

Those Who Cannot Remember the Past Are Condemned to Repeat It

To the casual observer, the history of medicine seems one of continuous progress. In reality, for every therapeutic accomplishment that has withstood the test of time there have been several ineffective or even harmful treatments that are now forgotten; yet they were based on theories regarded as plausible at the time. Examples abound, also in the archives of the Dutch Journal of Medicine: trea...

Commentary: Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

In this commentary, the author asks, can educators learn from being reminded of moments of poor judgment or inappropriate behavior in the history of medical education, or should these incidents not be revived and revisited? The question is posed in relation to the accompanying article in this issue by Halperin, which examines the publication of a medical textbook that featured pin-up style phot...

Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.

Ropelike birthmarks on children who claim to remember past lives.

Description of birthmarks having the pattern of strands of a rope in a second known case includes some verification of the correspondence between the birthmarks and injuries from ropes on an identified decreased person.

The Family Stories Workshop: stories for those who cannot remember.

The Family Stories Workshop (FSW) is a process through which family members and friends of persons with dementing disorders living in nursing homes develop stories of these residents' lives. The stories are meant to help staff members to develop a better, more deeply felt understanding of the lives of the residents, persons who can no longer tell their own stories. The workshop is product-orien...