The Oxford Illustrated Companion to Medicine edited by Stephen Lock, John
Last and George Dunea, Oxford University Press, 拢39.50, ISBN
0192629506
A DOCTOR makes a mistake and a patient dies. As a result, a census of
practising doctors is carried out. They are all re-certified and
re-licensed鈥攖hat mistake won’t kill another patient.
In the light of recent medical malpractice scandals in Britain, this action
seems admirably thorough. But the place was Baghdad, the time AD 949.
Medicine flowered in the Arab civilisation that once stretched from the
Ganges to southern Spain. The medical knowledge of the Greeks was preserved…
