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John Lienhard presents guest Stanley Reiser
Today, medical ethicist Stanley Reiser visits a legendary physician. The University of Houston presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
Hippocrates, alive some 2,500 years ago, continues to influence doctors and patients through essays on the ethics of medical work. Most famous is The Oath. It begins: "I swear by Apollo physician, by Asclepius, by Health, by Panacea and by all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will carry out, according to my ability and judgment, this oath and this indenture." These words tell the novice students for whom it was written: don't take this Oath lightly.
The meaning of the next passage has been controversial. It asks students to care for their teachers, share income with them, and when they become doctors to give their knowledge only to those who take the Oath. For me, the promise of a l
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John Tisdale received his medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. He completed an internal medicine and chief residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville and then trained in hematology in the Hematology Branch, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI). He joined the Molecular and Clinical Hematology Branch of NHLBI in 1998 and is now the Chief of the Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics Branch.
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Dr. Jonathan Reiner, MD, is an accomplished interventional cardiologist and Professor of Medicine and Surgery at George Washington University.
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Dr. Carl June is the
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