AMICOR Medicina: Charcot would have approved

AMICOR Medicina

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Name: Aloyzio Achutti

Location: Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

Coordinator of the list AMICOR. Friends and colleagues, mostly from Brazil. The AMICOR list is where I use to post relevant scientific material I find surfing in the INTERNET. Also references sent by other member of the list.

Saturday, March 19, 2005

Charcot would have approved

Charcot would have approved -- Godlee 330 (7492): 0 -- BMJ
As he walked the wards of the Salpetriere Hospital in 19th century Paris, Charcot allegedly gave only two prognoses, solemnly pronouncing at the end of each bed "Il va mourir," or "Il va mourir aujourd'hui." A bleak message definitely, and bluntly delivered, but there is something enviable in its certainty and simplicity. Of course he was short of effective treatments, and accurate prognosis was often the only useful thing medicine could offer, so the art of prognosis was highly valued and was a big part of the medical curriculum.