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The Uncertain Art

Nuland, Sherwin B.

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The Uncertain Art

A clinical professor of surgery at Yale University, Sherwin B. Nuland is the author of numerous books, including The Art of Aging: A Doctor’s Prescription for Well-Being; How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter, which won the National Book Award; Lost in America: A Journey with My Father; Maimonides; and Leonardo da Vinci. He lives in Connecticut.

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Title of ebook: The Uncertain Art
ISBN: 9781588367235
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Internet download file size: 341 kb
Released online for download: 05-20-2008
Author of eBook: Nuland, Sherwin B.

The Uncertain Art

Thoughts on a Life in Medicine
THE WHOLE LAW OF MEDICINE

Life is short, and the Art is long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and the externals, cooperate.

The First Aphorism

attributed to hippocrates, c. 400 b.c.e.

It has long been accepted that a considerable portion of the body of writings credited to Hippocrates was in fact authored by others, in the two centuries following his death. But until recent decades, scholars remained convinced that reliable criteria were recognizable by which at least a certain core of the material might still be identified as his own. They set this group of texts off from the rest by calling it “The Genuine Works of Hippocrates.”

English translations of these central teachings were inadequate and incomplete until the mid-nineteenth century, when the Sydenham Society of London commissioned the Scottish surgeon Francis Adams to provide a definitive edition. Published in 1849, the two-volume result of Ad ... read full excerpt from The Uncertain Art ebook