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Avicenna’s Role In Generating Medical Records
Azar KABİRZADEH, MD,a Benjamin Mohseni SARAVİ, MDa
aFaculty Para Medical Sciences, IRAN
The experts and scientists need to write in order to communicate their ideas with the others. Science would have never achieved such a great development, if scientists hadn’t transferred results of their research to their next generations on the basis of written materials. With the aid of official scientific books and journals, we get informed of various scientific developments. On the other hand with the methods of our predecessors; we could develop its branches.
Drawing on the walls of caves, clay tablets, papyrus or skin scrolls are some examples of early records of science and knowledge by our ancestors left for present people. The format of ancient books and essays are surely different from modern and common ones, but from the viewpoint of recording information they have sufficient importance, and they can be said to be of equal importance as books today.
The growth and development of medicine cannot be anyhow excluded.
After attending and treating a patient, the doctors record the results of their examinations and findings in the form of patients written files. These authentic documents, known as medical records will serve as training instrument for future physicians. Thus, to write a scientific essay, one must gather arranged and precise findings related to the theme of essay. From the past to the present time, physicians have always produced data in the form of medical records while attending patients and then arranged them so as to write their scientific essays and to present them to next generations.
Avicenna, a great Iranial medical genius, who has gained global fame made his compilation on the basis of Hippocrates works. He gathered and compiled what he has learned in his trips as physician and finally left his famous essays titled “canon of medicine”. If can be concluded that, he, in his era had noticed the role and importance of authentication, and had set about producing medical records.
The author, in this essay, deals with Avicenna’s Role in generating medical records and the role of such records in medical education development.Keywords: Medical records, Avicenna, history of medicineTurkiye Klinikleri J Med Ethics 2005, 13:137-139
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