Abu Bakr al-Razi (Rhazes) · Science
Al-Razi wrote medicine for those who could not afford a physician (<em>Man la Yahduruhu al-Tabib</em>), left the vast <em>Hawi</em> as a gift to all who came after, and taught that the physician’s duty includes giving the patient hope - medicine as a public good and a moral calling.
You learned that al-Razi wrote Man la Yahduruhu al-Tabib (‘For One Who Has No Physician’) to make medicine available to the poor, that his Hawi became a monumental compendium serving physicians for centuries, and that his medical ethics stressed the physician’s duty to serve all people and to sustain…
Leads to Ibn Sina (Avicenna).
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