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Appendix I Medical Ethics in the Life and Works of the Great Iranian Scholars
Appendix I Medical Ethics in the Life and Works of the Great Iranian Scholars
Pages 86-91
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Rare were such physicians as Rhazes or Mahmoud ibn Elias who treated the needy free of charge in their own houses, supplied drugs to their patients whenever needed, and even gave patients money to live. If there was a hospital in a city, the needy, the travelers, and the homeless received medical services free of charge.
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Hippocrates insisted that diseases had a natural cause, and he rooted his work in medical records and observations. 3 Hippocrates wrote an oath, (know as the Hippocratic Oath)
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"Whatever houses I may visit, I will come for the benefit of the sick, remaining free of all intentional injustice, of all mischief and in particular of sexual relations with both female and male persons, be they free or slaves. "What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself, holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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Impatience is a sign of weakness and his rashness comes out of misinformation and shallow experience."7 HIPPOCRATES'S MEDICAL MANNER "It serves him who is in the position of learning medicine to be temperamentally of good nature and mold. He must be young, of average height, and well bodied.
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There should be no hurriedness or embarrassment in his words. In my view, this form of life and behavior is better than the other forms."8,9 HALY ABBAS'S LETTER OF EXHORTATION TO PHYSICIANS Ali ibn Abbas Majussi, know as Haly Abbas to the Europeans, in his Kamel al-Sanaat al-Tibbia has included exhortations based on testaments of Hippocrates, other physicians, and some of his own views for physicians and students of medicine.
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If the patient has an acute disease, the doctor must visit him day and night to help him recover health, be cause acute diseases change conditions quickly. "A physician must keep himself from lust and material gain, and from being involved in menial and useless jobs.
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