“Organizing Your Doctor’s Library: A Guide to Essential Clinical and Philosophical Books”

2023-04-23 09:17:34

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According to Ricardo Archila, G. Trompiz was a highly educated doctor who wrote books of scientific, literary, and philosophical interest. He practiced humanistic medicine, as part of the medical art and scientific medicine. All of the above are branches of human medicine or philosophical medicine.

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About a doctor’s library Trompiz writes: “… to get to know highly complex philosophers, one must first prepare oneself by reading in silence and meditation those who have been able to understand them and have published admirable works regarding them. To understand Zubiri, Heidegger , Jasper, it will therefore always be necessary to drink from the sources of López Ibor, Rof Carballo, Sarró, P. Gómez Bosque, F. Arasa , Biswanger, Boss, etc. It is recommended from now on that, as well as the doctor who Beginning you should keep a notebook on rare cases and special treatments and ideas that arise in it as you work, to later draw conclusions of interest, you should also get used to building a select library of authors from the new trends in medicine …”

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Then Trompiz explains how the doctor should organize his library: “…divide his bookshelf, placed in the quietest corner of the home, however humble it may be, into several sectors: one, for clinical books, only those essential for his routine and the most important to consult and, next to it, the magazines of your choice in the same sense and take two hours a day, preferably those at dawn, to document yourself in them.Among these I recommend the works of Jiménez Díaz, LF Pallardo, Fernández Cruz , Pedro Pons, Moguer Molins, etc., among the Spanish; Bauer, Mathes, Pette, Bock, Von Bergman, etc., among the Teutons; Harrison, Cecil, Levine, Pickering, among the Anglo-Saxons; Bikoww, Platonoff, Speransky, among the Soviets; Delay, Abrami, Guillain, among the French, etc., Pende, Scopinaro, Van, among the Italians.

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Another sector for books of subjective interest and related magazines to dedicate, per week, three or four hours, better at night, reading them in depth. Among these are the works of López Ibor, Rof Carballo, F. Arasa, Laín Entralgo, Cavaleiro Goas, Gómez Bosque, among the Spanish; W. Álvarez, Wolf Alexander, among the North Americans; W. Frankl, WV Weizsaecker, among the Germans; Honorio Delgado, Alberto Seguin, among the Peruvians; Florencio Escardó, Da Silva Mello, Autragesilo, among the Argentines and Brazilians, etc., etc.

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And a third sector for literary miscellany that should never be lacking in a man who tends to be universal and multifaceted every day, and read these books at times stolen from his work. Entering this venue will be his best hobby for him, from which he will never leave disappointed; but with new ideas and inspirations. “Only in this way, doctors, in addition to being humane, simple and modest in their professional and hospitable performance, will be members of an intellectual elite, but without the push of super-wise men”.

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We noted in Dr. Trompiz’s recommendations that the library should have different divisions that correspond to different types of books such as medical, philosophical, and general culture books. On the other hand, the tendency to keep in touch with universal thought, through foreign authors, is obvious from the catalog that he reviews. But Trompiz also advises reading inconsequential books dedicated to detectives, surely for a change and not taking everything so seriously. It is clear that the library is a welcoming place, conducive to reading and reflection. Miguel de Unamuno reflected that room and its role in two poems. We quote some verses from them:

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IT’S NIGHT IN MY STUDIO

Here, at night, alone, this is my study;

the books are silent;

my oil lamp

Bathe these pages in a light of peace,

fire like a tabernacle; the books are silent;

of poets, thinkers, scholars,

the spirits sleep;

and they are as if around me

cautious death.

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READ, READ, READ LIFE.

Read, read, read, live life

that others dreamed

Read, read, read the soul forgets

the things that happened

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