I am a doctor and oncologist and through
my professional career
I thought before I got here that
have passed maybe 28 promotions
students and residents of
hematology oncology
I feel very proud of them I have
seen growing up with beautiful and are many
locate local or local in
important institutions united states
and in Spain but watching with a
certain sadness that new account up
recently that as we are putting
more science the universities in the
faculties when more technical the
we do is losing and diluting
with aspects of the code and
Hippocratic principles of ethics and
of humanism and that worries me quite
about two years ago I have a great friend
that is here the ethnic audience
spend or who is a doctor and hugo and
we talk about this situation that and handsome
that we are idealistic or romantic
we saw that every time doctors are
They are more technical scientists
Oncologists already do the worthy and without
function of black and white points in
the power pits round not round
we no longer see even in cancer there
we go to the autopsies and we are worried
worried about this then we tried
make both something something special
to see if we could somehow
return to resurrect those
aspects of ethics and the same as eta
go
we live when the most
youngsters to what is destiny if there
what to wear or not my only friend is
Here he was born on the island of Kos to them
interesting someone knows where those are coming from
things that there are that character to
antique nation corts for those who
do not know hippocrates all the less and I
It seems very easy to start talking about
epochs of things
everyone will not tell you what we did the
mess or have we recently made to
try to bring this kind of fire
olympic but fire of knowledge the
Fire humanistic ethical Greece
new powers will then them
explain if they allow a beautiful story
and simple and sensitive about
hippocrates and in the end like chis
German to explain in the last part
They will not laugh but I hope you like it
because it’s coss was a character
incredible because at that time it was
philosopher medical writer and then
his father was a doctor and his grandfather was
doctor
his father after it the
small medicine took him to the
tastings john clip where it was formed as
doctor and then from there
he began to give his teachings and what
I think it was the Hippocratic school that did not
it was only hippocrates and not
all his disciples agree on the
epoch of hippocrates in things that is
a very small island 7 km from turkey
it was a nerve center of
Culture perhaps will pass through Asia
europe and there they went big
mathematical philosophers and their shooters
and doctors or live on costs like
surroundings in his time and well two
schools of medical thought
One was the school decided that this
school
I just wanted to think or were interested in
symptoms of diseases
nothing else the school instead
Hippocratic what interested him is
find the cause of the disease
because only knowing the cause
disease we can one day cure it
therefore completely different then
at this time I would tell you now three
very important characteristics
The first critical body is that
hippocrates is channeled
is for medicine religion very
important that makes the region was
that time it was thought that a
disease was the divine punishment and
obviously imagine what it means
what has been Libyan if punished
by the gods that will not cure what
both turn off and let’s have it by voting the
yes I separate religion that is not the
cause
let’s say divine but it is something of the
nature
all this can heal and there is an aphorism
very nice when he talks about epilepsy
and he tells his disciples the
Epilepsy is not a divine punishment
epilepsy is caused by things that are not
we know the current time but the day
that we know what causes epilepsy
you will see that it is not a divine punishment
when first thing sure liza
desacralizes the problem of the disease
and that is after cognitively
a tremendous third party because no longer
zimmer imposes us and inside
what yes to scientific medicine
second point of the katry group here is
who worked with protocols observed
point and then the rational way
try to find explanations therefore
that school let’s say start like
we would say the experimental measure of
music we call it based on the evidence
you could be criticized some of your
methodologies but really they
I was looking for the truth I remember very
important then concepts to do
experiments to point it out to observe the
nature try to understand it very
important
the third part is that they put everything in
all an ethics and humanism
spectacular has respect for al al
sick is fundamental and the dessert and
some some examples
so you can see but there is a detail that
it excites me a lot because I
cossío we convinced the dean to
visit it and dry for two months and
visiting the coz museum of
Hippocrates
I I realized that there was a
one to a bed very easily and
very low and next to a very low stool
and he asked the guide and this is
murate the morning people not that it is for
small children not fixed no what
important of this story says the
doctor sat so low so low
to be at the same level the head with
head with him with the sick
see if it is not worth it, are we going to
standing hospitals
the fbi is below this implies certain
superiority and with the white coat and not
let’s say contract avoided in any
moment to give the feeling that I am
superior to you
you understand therefore we are equal
when we talk about disease
we will be like equals and head
mine has to be at your level
this excited me very much for
so much we already have to say three
important elements
secularization the taking out of the gods
as the cause of the disease
the scientific experimental part the
base is called hippocrates the father the
modern medicine and the third the
incredible level of ethical respect and
humanism that I know that those doctors
already skype or talk they had for their
sick, there’s nothing better than giving
as many examples of hippocrates in
as to his aphorisms and some
oceanicus orrit are very current which
we all know is the night cousin that
be it mentions this morning here not
First of all there is no harm so
we all know
there is a very nice one that is the doctor
cure some treats almost all but
console everyone you give him not if
the doctor is always by the
sick even if it does not cure
although he can not try but always
I will be next to the sick
the doctor becomes the defender
sick lawyer
It is also important that before me
forget that with all those concepts
hippocrates is the first
puts the doctor as a profession
Until before they were not in agreement
so explain a few more
aphorisms one says walk in the best
medicine for the sick not to walk
up-to-date not another flower did I say the
best example for good health is
good nutrition and a good exercise
neither little nor much this could be a
marketing today television and
it has not been said that hippocrates was born
460 years before Jesus Christ
We are almost 2,500 years this year
to the marinera of agreement then says
that everything in excess is bad for the
nature says that the doctor has to
not just caring for the sick and their
relatives but to their caregivers
something that today social networks
even social networks see important
I did have spoken 2,500 years ago and
another thing that makes it very important is the
professional secret
Remember that at that time the
doctors and now they did not think as much
private and intimate of that of the being
human but also that time
they went into homes and saw things to
times that were not entirely correct
because there is no day that not many
millions of thousands of people and from here
that he had a kind of fixation
in professional secrecy
the doctor is like a priest what
See what he sees, process it and do not talk to anyone
professional secret then there was says is
better treat than prevent this comes from
cds and so a headquarters of let’s say
aphorisms that have to do with the
exercise with the with health with the
nutrition with respect for the sick person
the family and everyone agrees
then here would be the aphorisms
and then to understand a little more and already
the philosophy of the Hippocratic Oath
that curiously hippocrates forced
those who wanted to become doctors because
at that time there were many doctors
false
many fake doctors what forced
shortly before writing the headquarters of iu as
of laws or internal decrees so that
may be able to accredit those
students of his who had doctors
in a regulated manner and always with
the gods from above as blessing
the sacred question of the de
to treat doctors’ work
but giving then is this is very
important because the oath
Hippocratic was done before now
we do afterwards with one just the
career he did before and he was the
Safe-conduct to enter my school
of teachings or if now four
aphorisms and cabré a little history
with the thing that I get a bit like that
they are people in a word not the aphorism
first and we will tell whether no no
cabos is this day is to a
acclamation annotation apollo invocation
to polo because the art of medicine was
sacred is called amnesty arts
dislike because I understood that the
relationship between a patient and his doctor
it was as sacred for cesc has to be the
that was thrown prior important thing
the consell to see that time that yes
there were the gods watching the
actions of doctors and I would be what
re those who could judge the doctor and
the last comment of the oath
Hippocratic says if I do it to be something
well, beg, medina, beg, bless
the gods and if I do badly that I
condemn the gods or so much the appearance
from here there is a superior being watching
my actions for was important more
that gives as guarantee x my doctors to
things correctly because it
they will have to discuss it with the gods
second point of the Hippocratic Oath
says that the relationship of
patient with the doctor is
incredibly novel for me
acknowledged that he did not know what it is
that time the respect towards the
doctor was absolute the doctor was
just like my father and the sons of the
doctor were like the children the brothers
from my sons
imagine what level he had in the
society a doctor at that time did not
and the third is I said the secret
professional well as I said
basically in a few traces not everything
which it is the respect for ethics to
humanism
the defender of the sick at all costs
this is the Hippocratic concept that
we did what do you think that
we did
nikos the legacy is the final point of everything
that process we did not cossio
two years ago we did we went o 20
invited by the mayor of cox and dried
we visit all the mythical places not
Hippocrates and gave us the Alca de
a tree that is a tree’s son
Hippocrates in the agora where for
three gave their talks to their students
to your students when a tree is had
to go through passport control and
control irrigation of metal because
it is common asparagus to understand us Luis
parra guiteau has not taken the month of
March
and it was like this for six months, it is not feared
that way and we brought not a tree two
because what are we going to do now
I’ll tell you what we do in two universities
and this tree was brought by the elche
the dean I to Barcelona and the 23rd of
last October we did not plant in the
cloister of the faculty of medicine of
barcelona and at the same time we bought a
bust replica of hippocrates del del
archaeological museum of Athens and now
you have gone to the lack of medicines
Barcelona
you will see in the center in the cloister the
bust of hippocrates with the phrase
I swear little by little it was treated many and
consolation to all and next one thing a
tree project but in the future
and here comes we will do the
Hippocratic Oath
surely in June that comes with the
picture the bust of hippocrates and the tree
that within a few years be a tree
with shadow so we will do
already the Hippocratic oath in plan
hellenic and not obviously not only with
this but with a hippo satin ax
the 10 of the of the one of the end of course and
possibly what to throw the type
ethical humanistic to try to carry
again enter this again
scientific world
ethical concepts and values and
Humanities of the Hippocratic School
not then there are two photographs years and
will leave is the bust according the group
crates with the phrase that was said and the
next is the dean
the dean and representative of the island of
deca coconuts and as mayor
gardener action for a day
you, well, this is what we have done
and my kids had a day
next do these 23 and 24 went to the
museum of málaga and mechanics that
we are already in negotiations with
madrid with seville
we try that the Hippocratic spirit
born does this economic revival what
we can take the whole peninsula
Iberian
most universities so that
avoid that knowledge torch
google the live fire of ethics and what
that I am shortly before our
students and to finish I would ask you
he liked the story
thank you very much
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