Too many doctors and hospitals are still using the same record-keeping technology as Hippocrates.

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Long before Hippocrates advised "Let food be your medicine, " garlic was prized as much for its curative powers as for its flavor.

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Dr. Frances repeatedly chastises the writers of the DSM-5 for failing to ask Hippocrates' question: Will this new diagnosis help patients or harm them?

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As far back as the fifth century BC Hippocrates used a bitter powder obtained from willow bark to ease aches and pains and reduce fever.

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The legions of Hippocrates do not take orders gladly.

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