Ars Longa, Vita Brevis

 "Vita est brevis, ars longa,occasio praeceps, experientia fallax, judicium difficile..."*
 Hippocrates

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"Ars Longa, Vita Brevis" or "The Art is long staying, and the Life is brief"... the art of medicine, the art of healing,  the art of being God...

There is something very strange, when people realize that you're a doctor; they don't see you as a human being, they see you as god. Yes, each doctor is a god, he saves and gives human lives, takes lives if makes a mistake, the vitality of people depends on him; the doctor masters the art of healing, knows the secrets of cure and creates and protects life's vital "gear" - the Health. So the doctor is a creator, a demiurge, an artist, а real God.

But I don't study medicine, because I want to become a god, I do it, because I want to be a artist... As pathologically addicted to all kinds of Art, I want to acquire and improve the greatest one - the art of saving human life. I wonder if my talent for drawing and painting would help me being a physician... we just have to wait and see...

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*I wanted to start my first post on this blog with my favorite quatation of the Hippocrates' Aphorisms. 

The original citation in Greek sounds: "Ὁ βίος βραχύς, ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρή, ὁ δὲ καιρὸς ὀξύς, ἡ δὲ πεῖρα σφαλερή, ἡ δὲ κρίσις χαλεπή..." and the English translation is: "Art is long, vitality is brief, occasion precipitous, experiment perilous, judgment difficult..."