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 Major Medical Specialty
Fields |
The Hippocratic Oath
has provided a blueprint for
medical ethics for more than 2,000 years. It
first lays down the obligation of a doctor to his
teacher and his teacher's family. Then it
outlines his standards of behavior in serving the
patient's interest. |
 Origins
of the "Universal" Symbol for a
Prescription The
symbol is traceable to the sign of Jupiter, which
was placed on ancient prescriptions to appeal to
that god for favorable action of the medicine. |
 Albert Bruce
Sabin was influenced to study polio
by an epidemic of that disease that hit New York
City in 1931. He began testing a live-virus
vaccine in 1954, and by the 1970's that vaccine
had succeeded in nearly eradicating polio from
the world. |
 Albert
Schweitzer was
inspired to become a medical missionary after
reading an evangelical paper regarding the needs
of medical missions. After earning his medical
degree he began raising money for a hospital at
Lambaréné, French Equatorial Africa (now
Gabon), and began serving there in 1913. |
 John R.
Brinkley gained "fame" by
transplanting goat gonads into elderly male
patients with the promise of sexual rejuvenation.
He turned that fame into a national radio program
in which he advertised his treatments and
concoctions. |
