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El Medico : The Physician ingawa ni ya zamani 2013 lakini inaelezea wahafidhina wa kidini za Kikristo na Uislam miaka ya karne ya 11 jinsi walivyokuwa wanakwamisha udadisi/research wa kisanyansi ktk fani ya utabibu wa binadamu maana Mungu na Vitabu vitakatifu vilikuwa ndiyo muongozo ikitoa miiko katika yote iwe elimu/ilmu na sayansi au maisha ya kawaida ya mwanadamu na hutakiwi kuvuka miiko hiyo ya wanazuoni/wafanani wabobezi wa dini hizo kubwa za Mashariki ya Kati na Ulaya:
Movie: The Physician / El Medico 2013
it is the
Dark Ages, and the Church is fighting against 'black magic'. The medical knowledge of Greek physicians like
Hippocrates and
Galen had been lost to the
medicine of medieval Europe (until taught later in schools such as the
School of Salerno after the
Arabic-Latin translation movement of
the 12th century). In 11th-century England, travelling
barber surgeons attempted to supply medical care to the ordinary population, often at the risk of the Church persecuting them for witchcraft.
Robert Cole has an extraordinary gift, where he can sense when someone left untreated has a
terminal illness. He notices this for the first time when he feels it as a little boy when his sick mother is dying of
appendicitis, a disease he was unaware of. The young orphan joins an itinerant barber-surgeon who calls himself Barber. Barber teaches him the basics of medieval medicine, with services such as
cupping therapy,
bloodletting, and
dental extraction. Even as an apprentice Rob recognizes the limitations of these simple practices. When Barber suffers from a
cataract, Rob consults a real Medicus for him. This
Jewishdoctor heals Barber completely. He learns a little bit of Jewish culture. He speaks with two children, Jesse and Benjamin. There, Rob sees for the first time a
world map, and learns of the famous
Ibn Sina, who teaches medicine in distant
Persia. So he decides to train there to become a physician. During the
Islamic Golden Age, the
medicine in the medieval Islamic world (evolved from a symbiosis of
Gondishapur Iranian medicine and
NestorianByzantine medicine in
Baghdad's
House of Wisdom) is far more advanced than in Europe. The doctor, scientist and philosopher
Ibn Sina teaches in
Isfahan, the most important school for aspiring practitioners in the world at that time.
Rob is told Christians are forbidden in Muslim lands while Jews are tolerated. Upon arriving in
Egypt, Rob, even though he is a baptized Christian, performs a
circumcision on himself and calls himself Jesse Ibn Benjamin, pretending to be a Jew. In a caravan he comes to know Rebecca who reads to him from
a book about
Aladdin and
Sinbad the Sailor. He experiences a desert storm and almost dies. When he asks for admission to the hospital and school of
Ibn Sina, he is thrown out and beaten by guards. Laying in the street with a cut and a
concussion he is found by the Guardian, so then he is taken in as a patient.
In a
Bimaristan hospital and
Madrasa college, he is treated by
Ibn Sina and made a student to learn the basics of scientific medicine as well as
other sciences and philosophy (including
Aristotelian and
Islamic philosophy). Rob learns to perform a
medical history and medical examination including
pulse diagnosis, the
leech treatment, the use of opium, including the
analgesic effect, and surgical procedures. When a plague breaks out in the city and thousands die, the doctors remain at the patients' side. With the discovery of basic
hygienic principles, the plague is overcome. Rob suggests that
oriental rat fleas may be the carriers of the Black Death, and with rat poison the pest may be suppressed. Rob's passion for Rebecca flares up again, since her husband temporarily abandons the city, leaving her to become sick and Rob nurses her back to health. There is
extramarital sex between Rob and Rebecca that results in a pregnancy. Adultery leads to the threat of a stoning. Rob learns from the Shah about the burden of ruling.
The
Christian, Jewish and
Islamic religions influence the evaluation of medical science, and a conflict is sparked by the ethical assessment of the
autopsy on the human body. As a
Zoroastrian dies of
appendicitis, Rob learns from him that he does not require his dead body for his religion. Rob secretly performs an autopsy on his body to deepen his knowledge of anatomy and to discover the inflamed
vermiform appendix. When the
mullahs discover what he has done, both Rob and
Ibn Sina are sentenced to death for
necromancy, but are freed by palace guards so Rob can perform an
appendectomy, while using
anesthesia, on the Shah.
Isfahan is betrayed by the
mullahs, to the
Seljuks, since they want to drive the Jews and secular blasphemers like
Ibn Sina out of town. A crowd destroys the hospital and kills the employees.
Ibn Sina heads to the burning library and transfers his
medical writings to Rob Cole, and also awards him the medical title '
Hakim.'
Ibn Sina then stays to die in the burning library.
Rob Cole, as well as others, escape through a gate the Shah has told them about while he and his men go to make a last stand against the Seljuks. Rob returns with Rebecca, as his wife, back to London and establishes a hospital. The old Barber, Cole's first teacher, learns from a little boy of the return of his former pupil and of his fame.
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