Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: disease phenotypes

  • Life is short and Art is long: reflections on the first Hippocratic aphorism

    Anthony PapagiannisThessaloniki, Greece Some five centuries before Christ, the ancient father of medicine Hippocrates used to instruct his students that “Life is short and Art is long; opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult.” (Ο βίος βραχύς, η δε τέχνη μακρή, ο δε καιρός οξύς, η δε πείρα σφαλερή, η δε κρίσις χαλεπή). To this translation,1…