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| | HIPPOCRATIC AND IDEOLOGICAL MEDICINE |
 | | "Hippocratic medicine" and "Ideological medicine" wish to be, obviously, significant expressions and claim to condense trends, by means of the use of two adjectives, one of which refers to a "father" of rational and individual medicine, while the other is derived from a noun (ideology) in common use, the meaning of which is well known. |
 | | For ideological medicine represented a convenient refuge for the disappointments of the doctor-scientists of the past who so frequently saw the brilliant precursory intuitions of the best of them, such as Hippocrates, shattered by the objective difficulties of the general problems of science and the particular problems of individual clinical cases. |
 | | The latter encourages the new dogmatic positions and uses them as a means of ideological indoctrination exercised upon physicians, patients, and on the healthy collectivity, often with terroristic tones the effectiveness of which is assured by an orchestrated use of the mass media. |
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