(a.) Of or pertaining to Hippocrates, or to his teachings.
Example Sentences:
(1) Justice Hiley later suggested the conduct required by a doctor outside of his profession, as Chapman was describing it, was perhaps a “broad generality” and not specific enough “to create an ethical obligation.” “It’s no broader than the Hippocratic oath,” Chapman said in her reply.
(2) The Hippocratic concept of preceptor education as an alternative has much to recommend it in replacing the present system, which underwrites the cost of student education through research grants and subsidies, but greatly neglects the continuing education of the practicing physician.
(3) As many as 7% of psychiatrists admit to having sexual intercourse with patients, despite ethical prohibitions going back to the Hippocratic Oath.
(4) His writings on epilepsy over 40 years are on a par with the Hippocratic writings on the Sacred Disease.
(5) I suggest a technologists’ Hippocratic oath : First, harm no users .
(6) The documents of the Hippocratic tradition and clinical experience indicate that a more appropriate and helpful first principle would be "Above all, be useful."
(7) And yet in his effort and commitment to the exact code of the Hippocratic oath, he paid with his life.
(8) He’s seemingly supportive of every Gove policy, and comes up with bone-headed initiatives of his own – teacher MOTs and Hippocratic oaths being the most worrying.
(9) The group of public-minded cybersecurity volunteers proposed a “hippocratic oath” for connected medical devices last week, suggesting that manufacturers of the devices (which pose tempting targets and can cause huge personal suffering if hacked) abide by a set of principles including supporting “prompt, agile and secure updates” and working with third-party researchers to ensure potential security issues can be safely reported.
(10) Plato, Aristotle and Chrysippus, the Hippocratic authors and Erasistratus in the testimony of Aulus Gellius, Plutarch and indirectly also of Cicero, and then Galen and Macrobius have a special place in the development of this topic.
(11) Whoever dreamed up Labour’s policy of a Hippocratic oath for teachers clearly hadn’t remembered the power of citizen journalists and social media to instantly disable ill-thought-through ideas.
(12) Non-contagionists put forward several hypotheses to explain the origin and the spreading of cholera, mainly "miasma" theory and the Hippocratic paradigm of "epidemic constitution".
(13) Alternatives to the Hippocratic tradition for the resolution of problems in medical ethics include the major Western religious systems, Western secular philosophy, and non-Western systems of religion and theory.
(14) The Hippocratic Oath and 1980 Code of Ethics of the American Medical Association (AMA) are compared to evaluate the nature of the relationship between students and teachers of medicine and the ethical injunctions that guide practice and make up the essence of the Hippocratic Oath.
(15) These thoughts about an ethic of international health can be summarized in a very free revision of the Hippocratic Oath: I will share the science and art by precept, by demonstration, and by every mode of teaching with other physicians regardless of their national origin.
(16) The recognition of structural correlates with disease provided a release from the Hippocratic humors which dominated the approach to medicine for more than a thousand years.
(17) Some short texts which were added in later times to the "Works of Hippocrates" ("Physician", "Precepts", "Decorum") provide us with some information on a physician's daily life (see also H.M. Koelbing, The Hippocratic physician at his patient's bedside, in Practitioner 224, 1980, 551-554).
(18) Edmund Pellegrino has pioneered work in medical ethics calling for a reconstruction of Hippocratic ethics.
(19) This central tenet of the hippocratic oath is as relevant to economic policy-makers as to physicians, particularly as the global economic picture grows more ominous.
(20) The evolution of medical epistemology and its implications in the field of cardiology is also described from the hippocratic treatises to the present.
Hypochondriac
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to hypochondria, or the hypochondriac regions.
(a.) Affected, characterized, or produced, by hypochondriasis.
(n.) A person affected with hypochondriasis.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was found that psychiatric and nursing observations corresponded over a wide area of psychopathology: anxiety, tension, depression, hostility, preoccupation with hypochondriacal, grandiose and self-depreciatory ideas, hallucinosis, thought disorders, mannerisms, retardation, emotional withdrawal, hypomanic activity and uncooperative behaviour.
(2) In women, poor outcome was associated with multiple depressive symptoms, depression diagnosed previous to this study, not living alone, low social participation, low self-perceived health, diurnal variation of symptoms, and the occurrence of initial insomnia, loss of libido, and hypochondriacal and compulsive symptoms.
(3) A total of 101 patients suffering from slowly progressive schizophrenia with hypochondriac symptomatology and a manifestation or a relapse of the disease in the involutional age have been studied.
(4) Within the hypochondriacal sample, no correlation was found between the degree of hypochondriasis and the extent of medical morbidity.
(5) These patients become quite anxious and hypochondriacal and begin to avoid certain situations in which they feel a recurrence of a panic attack would be dangerous or embarrassing.
(6) The author analyzes the results of an experimental study into sense regulation of the activity of patients with the hypochondriac syndrome.
(7) We administered two validated scales of hypochondriacal concerns (the Illness Behavior Questionnaire and the Illness Attitude Scales) to 60 medical students and matched law students.
(8) I will discuss the treatment of patients with hypochondriacal depressions.
(9) They were manifested by a number of symptom complexes: hypochondriac (13.6%), anxiety-depressive (18.4%) and paranoid (9.1%).
(10) Non-articulation of conceptual structure was not specific to patients with hypochondriacal symptoms, physical illness or chronic neuroses.
(11) The clinicogenealogical method using a genetico-mathematic analysis was employed to examine 50 probands with sluggish hypochondriac schizophrenia (126 relatives of the first degree kinship).
(12) Patients with fatigue lasting six months or longer compared with patients with more recent fatigue had lower family incomes and greater hypochondriacal worry.
(13) Are patients who complain of functional digestive tract disorders, constantly seeking medical advice and heavy medication consumers, mentally ill (emotional patients, hypochondriacs, depressive, hysterics), are they just under great stress, or do they indeed have chronic pain pathology?
(14) They were most similar to the latter in their hypochondriacal attitude, and least similar in their psychological perception of illness.
(15) The present article describes four such cases, which fall into the larger category of monosymptomatic hypochondriacal psychoses, conditions that appear to be related to the paranoid disorders.
(16) Of 100 inpatients with depressive illness, fifty-three had evidence of depressed mood prior to their hypochondriacal symptoms, sixteen had the opposite sequence of development and thirty-one had no hypochondriacal symptoms.
(17) Early neurosyphilis was characterized by affective volitional, asthenic, and hypochondriac disorders, whereas late neurosyphilis was manifested in neurosis-like disturbances, partial and total dementia and hallucinational paranoid syndrome.
(18) Examples are given for various levels of personality organizations and pathology, including neurotic, borderline, psychotic, psychosomatic and hypochondriacal patients.
(19) It was also found that only very few of the children in the study had previous hypochondriacal traits, a fact which contrasted sharply to those of their parents in whom hypochondriacal traits predominate.
(20) Finally, the SDIH appeared to have discriminant validity in that patients diagnosed as hypochondriacal had several other clinical features that distinguished them from the patients who scored above the cutoff on hypochondriacal symptomatology, but failed to be diagnosed as hypochondriacal with the SDIH.