it is also being subjected to the evils of the human mind. As physicians, we take oath to a code of conduct that we would not harm a human soul and/or body. As medical scientists, we also need to re-visit the same oath. On a simpler note there are three major regions of promoting misdemeanor in medical research. These are explained in detail at each level; the primary being a clinician's need t...

eyfa’e dein (oath of allegiance) is a general and human issue. it is mentioned in nahj al-balagha. in a famous letter, imam ali to malik al-ashtar warns: “in yours covenant with people, do not try to act according to your interests and break it selfishly”. then hazrat refers to the general and humane aspects of covenant and its importance in survival of humanity and the role of oath of allegian...

HIPPOCRATES During the Olympic Games 2004 in Athens, many of us had the opportunity to remind ourselves of the historical perspectives of medicine while visiting sites associated with the father of medicine, Hippocrates (460–377BC); highlights included the Acropolis and his birth and place of work on the island of Kos. While visiting those places and recalling the achievements of Hippocrates, i...

Not long ago, my wife had knee replacement surgery. Her surgery was successfully and skillfully carried out and, as expected, recovery went slow and rather painful. At dismissal, her surgeon, among several instructions, prescribed magneto-therapy for her pain. When I read it, I told him that the method should not be used because neither its effectiveness nor safety had yet been demonstrated. He...

Hippocrates, often considered the father of Western medicine, lived in ancient Greece shortly after the building of the Second Temple. Despite his numerous contributions to academic and clinical medicine, Hippocrates is likely best known to modern students of medicine through the Hippocratic Oath, a text attributed to Hippocrates and traditionally administered to students shortly before their g...

works on philosophy, kabbala, and Talmud written in a fifteenth-century rabbinical Byzantine script. In cataloguing the microfilm copy of the manusclipt at the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts in the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem," I was able to identify one short piece as a Hebrew adaptation of Hippocrates' oath, apparently the first such text to come to light....