The opinion of health care organizer and therapist on current problems of modern dentistry (in memory of academician Komarov F. I.)

Relevance. Getting acquainted with biographies and scientific works of prominent figures of medicine of the past years, you can find not only interesting facts from history, but also analogies with modernity, answers to many clinical problems of medicine today.Purpose. To present the contribution to dentistry of academician Fyodor Ivanovich Komarov, in connection with his death on January 25, 2020.Materials and methods. Based on the analysis of the life, professional activity and scientific works of the academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor Fyodor Ivanovich Komarov, it was necessary to identify studies on the dental aspects of modern medicine and health care.Results. Illuminated the scientific, clinical, pedagogical and public activity of the scientist, Clinician, teacher and public figure, an outstanding figure of Russian and world medicine of Hero of Socialist Labor, laureate of USSR State prize, honored scientist of Russia, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, doctor of medical Sciences, Professor, Colonel-General of medical services of Fedor Ivanovich Komarov. Special attention is paid to the little-known areas of his research in the field of dentistry.Conclusion. Scientific works of F. I. Komarov were included in the gold Fund not only in the world and domestic military medicine, gastroenterology, cardiology, pulmonology, biorhythmology, gerontology, geriatrics, but also in a number of other scientific areas of medicine and health care, including dentistry.

Prof. Aleksandar Josifovich Ignjatovski, Founder and First Director of the Clinic for Internal Medicine and the First Head of the Department of Internal Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine in Skopje, R. Macedonia

Aleksandar J. Ignjatovski was born in the Smolensk Region, Russia, on 18.03.1875. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in St. Petersburg in 1899 where he started specialization in internal medicine and continued in Berlin, Heidelberg, Munich and Paris. In 1905 he was elected assistant professor in St. Petersburg, continued as an associate professor in Odessa in 1908 and a full-time professor in 1912 in Warsaw. During the October Revolution, he was the Head of the Internal Clinic in Rostov, and in 1920 he emigrated to Belgrade. In 1922 he was appointed full professor and Director of the First Internal Clinic at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade, which he established, developed and managed until his retirement in 1946. In 1948 he moved to Skopje as a full professor and first Director of the Internal Clinic at the Faculty of Medicine in Skopje. He studied the pathogenesis of arteriosclerosis and first proved it experimentally, and published a paper in 1908, indicating that it was associated with higher blood cholesterol level. He also dealt with immunobiology and infectious diseases, in particular tuberculosis and tetanus. Prof. A. Ignjatovski was an excellent clinician, teacher and scientist, who published over 80 papers. His most important textbooks are “Clinical Semiotics and Symptomatic Therapy”, in two editions, in Russian (1919) and in Serbian (1929-37), and “The Basics of Internal Propedeutics” in three volumes, published in Skopje in 1952, 1954 and 1963. The work of Prof. A. Ignjatovski, as a leading clinician and a great teacher and scientist, is embedded in the development of internal medicine, and medicine in general, in Russia, Serbia and Macedonia. The bright memorial of the founder and first director of the Internal Medicine Clinic and the first Head of the Department of Internal Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine in Skopje has been permanently incorporated in the history of medicine in R. Macedonia. Prof. A. Ignjatovski died on 18.08.1955.

Theory

The conceptual framework for the Physicianship Curriculum is described in this chapter. The crucial participants are depicted in an “educational triangle,” a diagrammatic representation illustrating the roles and functional relationships of these participants. The chapter introduces the concept of the attending teacher, who is at once a clinician, teacher, and role model. We draw an explicit parallel between clinical care and medical education; it leads us to consider student-centered education as the pedagogical analogue to person-centered care. The text addresses the nature of medical judgment and the significant feature of uncertainty that is part of the experiences of all the relevant actors. The second half of the chapter explicates the constructs of epistēme, techné, and phronēsis, originating from Aristotle, whose framework underpins the philosophic armature of the Physicianship Curriculum.

Norman R. James F.F.A.R.A.C.S., a Pioneer of High Quality Anaesthesia in Australia

Dr Norman R. James was a multi-talented, highly accomplished clinician, teacher and innovator broadly recognized on three continents. In the United Kingdom, he served in London's Emergency Medical Service during World War II and was dubbed “England's foremost exponent of regional anaesthesia”. In his native land, he was the first Director of Anaesthetics at The Royal Melbourne Hospital with many innovations to his credit including a serious effort to reform anaesthetic practice in Australia. Dr M. T. “Pepper” Jenkins, the charismatic founder of anesthesiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, recruited him to Dallas in 1960, where he taught the art and science of anesthesiology at Parkland Memorial Hospital until his retirement in 1974. He died in 1987 and is buried in Winnsboro, Texas. A brief story of his life and career follows.