The Plane Tree of Hippocrates
A relic of the tree of Cos as a symbol of the physician’s ethical commitment
Alexandre
The Privilege of Physicians
Formation in the presence of death as the physician’s privilege and vocation
Why Do Patients Complain?
Dissatisfaction, the media, and lost trust in the doctor-patient relationship
Hemorrhage
An obstetric emergency anecdote and a patient’s pun on “going into shock”
A Good Watch for Surgery
An operating-room anecdote about an intern and his ‘waterproof’ watch
How a Paradigm Is Born
The parable of the five monkeys as a metaphor for the origin of customs
The Painting THE DOCTOR
The story of Luke Fildes’s painting The Doctor and medical devotion
Alexis Carrel (1873–1944) and Dakin’s Solution
The story of the French surgeon behind the antiseptic credited to Dakin alone
Avicenna
The Philosopher of the Arabs and his influence on medieval medicine
If the Gossip Used Sieves…
A parable on rumors: the test of truth, kindness, and necessity