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Curious Medicine

Christi

22 episodes

3 weeks ago

This is a show for all of you who are curious about historical, and often quirky, medical practices. Each episode examines a central topic about the peculiar approaches to healing across centuries since ancient times. Join Christi and recurring co-hosts for discussions of the offbeat, created for laypersons and medical professionals alike. New episodes are released each week on Sundays!

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Curious Medicine

1 hour 19 minutes 3 seconds

4 years ago

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This episode discusses doctor – patient communication since ancient times. Common historical practices (even into the 20thcentury) may astound you!

Topics discussed include: physicians’ dress and decorum; Hippocrates, the exemplar for physician behavior; Hippocratic Oath and Hippocratic Corpus; Galen’s views on doctor – patient relations; creation of American Medical Association Code of Ethics in 1847; lying to patients vs withholding the truth from patients regarding diagnoses and prognosis; and current recommendations for effective doctor – patient communication.