What Would Hippocrates Call It?
by Allen Forrest / May 19th, 2025
Plato, writing soon after The Oath was written, discussed the voluntary and informed relationship between physicians and patients. The medical treatises of The Oath’s time depict an attractive model for physician–patient communication and securing consent. The first of the Aphorisms pointedly says: “The physician must be ready, not only to do his duty himself, but also to secure the cooperation of the patient.”
— Stephen H. Miles, Professor of Medicine, Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota. In “The art of medicine: Hippocrates and informed consent,” The Lancet, Vol 374, October 17, 2009: p 1322
Allen Forrest is a writer, painter, graphic artist and activist. He has created covers and illustrations for literary publications and books, is the winner of the Leslie Jacoby Honor for Art at San Jose State University's Reed Magazine for 2015, and his Bel Red landscape paintings are part of the Bellevue College Foundation's permanent art collection in Bellevue, WA. He lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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This article was posted on Monday, May 19th, 2025 at 8:00am and is filed under Cartoon, Medical Ethics, Vaccines.
