Hippocrates. Do no harm! Aphorisms

"Life is short, the path of art is long, a convenient case is fleeting, the experience is deceptive, the judgment is difficult" (Hippocrates) Even during the life of Hippocrates, contemporaries glorified his medical skill and the depth of the mind. And after his death, his glory overshadowed the appearance of all previous and subsequent healers. During the time of Aristotle Hippocrates, he was already called "great", for the ancient Romans he became "divine", and to this day he continues to consider the “father of medicine”. So, every time after the invasion of the science of new bold and often dangerous theories and means, doctors return to the Hippocrates of the Covenant: "First of all - do not harm ahead!", And again and again they proclaim with their motto: "Back to Hippocrates!