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‘The Treatise of Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis’, comprises some three thousand entries on forty tablets. It is basically a list of ailments,

Hippocrates and Osler: It is much more important to know what sort of patient has a disease than what sort of disease a patient has.

Sharing our patient data in the aggregate, while anonymizing it to ensure privacy is maintained. This is helpful in research, and for comparing similar cases against one another.

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As Islamic civilisation was particularly well developed during this time, Muslim theologians demonstrated an intellectual versatility beyond any other group. The likes of al-Ghazali, al-Razi and al-Tusi were scholars of religion as much as they were physicians, poets and philosophers. The polymathic culture was so embedded in the Islamic world that

The ideas held by Hippocrates contained a mixture of strangeness and usefulness; the latter being demonstrated by his most famous saying that has been translated as, “Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food.”

I have found that one of the gifts of medicine is that it allows those who practice it to participate in the purest and most vulnerable moments of human life.