Aesculapius believed he was born in 1200 a. C. Aesculapius or Asclepius (the Greek name and therefore the real) was a mythical character of doubtful existence in a vague time and that legend says was a demigod, son of Apollo and a mortal father Hygelac and such a good doctor who came to raise the dead, so Pluto (or Hades in Greece) god of the underworld, complained to his brother Zeus (Jupiter in Rome), who forbade Asclepius raised, warning that where the god of the underworld helpers had laid his hands and he could not act. Zeus later took him to Olympus, where he was responsible for the medicine, relieving his father Apollo. The Boards of Aesculapius to his son, who wanted to study medicine, are a classic Greek literature and possibly medical ethics paper oldest known.
most surprising thing, in my opinion, is that in many respects his words are effective even 3000 years later. Bold put a part that I find remarkable, since even today with the number of Consciousness held about the disease, there are still many unexplained. And of course patients can not tolerate an "unknown", although there is no response ... and even after a 3000 years.
Aesculapius Tips
Want to be a doctor, my son?
Have you thought through what has to be your life? You'll have to give up private life, while most people can complete their homework, isolated away from the inconvenient, your door will always be open to all, at any time of day or night will come disturb your sleep, your pleasures, your meditation, you will not have hours to devote to family, friendship or study, no longer be yours.
The poor, used to suffer, will not call you except in cases of urgency, but the rich will treat you as a slave in charge to remedy its excesses, or because they have indigestion, or because they caught a cold, will you wake up as quickly as soon as you feel the least concern, as far estimated at him. You will have to show interest in the most ordinary details of his life, deciding whether to eat beef or lamb, if they go to this or that way when they walk. Can not go to the theater, be away from the city, or be sick will always be ready to go as soon as you call your master. Eras
severe in choosing your friends, looking to the society of men of talent, artists, sensitive souls, afterward, you can not discard to irksome to poor intelligence, the contemptible. The thief will have as much right to your assistance as the honest man dire prolonging lives, and the secret of your profession will not allow you to prevent crimes of which you will witness.
have faith in your work to win you a reputation, keep in mind that you will be judged, not by your knowledge, but by the twist of fate, by cutting your coat, by the look of your home, the number of your servants, for the attention you devote to the talks and tastes of your clientele. The will have to be suspicious of you if you spend no beards, others if you come from Asia, others believe in the gods, others, if you do not believe in them.
I like simplicity, so you must adopt the attitude of an augur. Are active, you know what it's worth the time, you will not have to express annoyance or impatience, will have to endure stories to boot the principle of time to explain a colic idle consult you for the simple pleasure of chatting. You will be the dumping ground for their troubles, their petty vanities.
feel passion for the truth, and you can not say it. You'll have to hide some severity of his illness, to others its insignificance, because they bother. You will have to keep secrets that have, seem to mock consent, ignorant, complicit.
Although medicine is a dark science, whom the faithful efforts are shining through the centuries, no doubt you will be allowed to ever risk losing all credibility. If you do not claim to know the nature of the disease, which possess a magic bullet to cure the common people go to quacks who sell the lie that needs .
not count on appreciation; when the patient is healthy, healing is due to its robustness, if you die, you're the one who killed him. While you are in danger treats you like a god, I beg, I promise, I praise fills, no good is in convalescence, and gets in its way, and when it comes to paying the care that we have lavished, are angry and you denigrate.
The men are more selfish, more demanding of medical application. The more greedy these, more disinterested is to be him, and them making fun of the gods give the priesthood to interest the worship of his sacred person. The city relies on it to remedy the damage it causes. Do not count on that so painful job make you rich, I told you: it is a priesthood, and would not produce decent gains as having a oiler or selling wool. I pity you if you feel desire for beauty, you'll see the most ugly and disgusting that exist in the human species, all your senses will be abused. You will have to stick your ear against the breasts dirty sweat, breathing the smell of miserable huts, perfumes uploaded tired of courtesans, palpate tumors, heal wounds green pus, fix your eyes and your nose in the filth, stick your finger in many sites. Many times, a beautiful day, sunny and perfumed, or to leave the theater, a piece of Sophocles, will call for a man who, bothered by abdominal pain, put before your eyes a basin foul, when he met: "Because I have a concern not to throw." Remember, then, seem to be much that you are interested in dejection. Until the very beauty of women, human comfort, for you will fade. You'll see the morning disheveled, haggard, devoid of its beautiful colors and forgetting about the furniture part of its attractions. Cease to be God to become afflicted with misery poor creatures graceless. Feel more compassion for them than wishful thinking. How often frightened when you see a sleepy alligator in the bottom of the source of pleasure!
Your life will pass like the shadow of death, between the pain of the bodies and souls, including duels and hypocrisy that refers to the bedside of the dying, the human race is a Prometheus torn by vultures. You'll be
alone in your grief, alone in your studies, only half of human selfishness. Not even find support among physicians who are deaf war interest or pride. Only ease the conscience of evil can hold you in your labors. Think while you're on time, but if indifferent to the fortune, the pleasures of youth; If knowing that you'll only between human beasts, have a fairly stoic soul to satisfy the duty performed without illusions, if you judge well paid with the joy of a mother with a face that smiles at you because you no longer have, or peace of a dying man who concealed the approach of death, if you yearn to know the man, penetrate all the tragedy of his fate, Become a doctor, my son!
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