The person credited with making a written record of healthcare practices and removing the mythical aspect of healthcare is who?
1. Hammurabi
2. Florence Nightingale
3. Hippocrates
4. Apollo
ANS: 3
Hippocrates wrote the first medical textbook, outlining current healthcare practices and removed the mythical belief that Apollo was responsible for health. Hammurabi wrote a code of laws to protect the patient and define legal limitations of caregivers, Florence Nightingale introduced modern nursing during the Crimean War, and Apollo was a mythical God who was believed to control health and wellness.
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