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Medical missions is the term used for Christian missionary endeavors that involve the administration of medical treatment. As has been common among missionary efforts from the 18th to 20th centuries, medical missions often involves residents of the "Western world" traveling to locales within Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, or the Pacific Islands.
In February 8, 1831, Rebecca Lee Crumpler was born Rebecca Davis in Delaware to Matilda Webber and Absolum Davis. [6] [7] [8] She was raised in Pennsylvania by her aunt who cared for ill townspeople. [1] [2] Her aunt acted as the doctor in her community and had a huge influence on Crumpler's decision to pursue a career in medicine. [8]
Bhikkus and Bhikkunis (monks and nuns, respectively), on the other hand, who have taken the ten vows as part of taking refuge and becoming ordained, cannot imbibe any amount of alcohol or other drugs, other than pharmaceuticals taken as medicine. Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, is known as teetotaler and non-smoker.
As of 1993, only 14% of medical oaths prohibited euthanasia, and only 8% prohibited abortion. [33] In a 2000 survey of US medical schools, all of the then extant medical schools administered some type of professional oath. Among schools of modern medicine, sixty-two of 122 used the Hippocratic Oath, or a modified version of it.
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Physician, heal thyself (Greek: Ἰατρέ, θεράπευσον σεαυτόν, Iatre, therapeuson seauton), sometimes quoted in the Latin form, Medice, cura te ipsum, is an ancient proverb appearing in Luke 4:23.
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Scholar Gert H. Brieger has called him "a heroic figure in American medicine" whose fame is due to his writings, where he also tried to improve medical education [7] and scientific research. [ 8 ] In 1818 Drake was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society and the American Philosophical Society .