and doctor got weaker, the role of a doctor changed too. In the middle ages we start to see the development of doctors as being specific people with more knowledge of medicine that the average man. Not just anyone was a doctor. The people started making rules for who could practice medicine, and only those who succeeded got to advance as trusted doctors. As the link between doctors and patients became more separated, the forms of payment became more defined. It was no longer two men trading services as neighbors; it was a professional that a patient had to pay in order to receive treatment. Doctors started to practice medicine for the money and not just for the satisfaction of healing patients (Rawcliffe, 65-70). As you can see the role of patient and healer used to be of one neighbor helping another or of a doctor healing for the satisfaction of healing and for his own learning and understanding of disease. But over time that has changed into a form of trade, a doctor selling a service for money. The healer of the ancient times had so much more personal knowledge of their patients that they would be able to not only heal their physical aliments but also give them hope and set them at ease. Therefore, forms of payment have changed from ancient Rome through the 14th and 15th centuries along with the relationship of healer and patient.Bibliography1.Carole Rawcliffe, “The Profits of Practice: the Wealth and Status of Medical Men in Later Medieval England.” Social History of Medicine 1988, 1: 61-78.2. Galen, On Prognosis. Edited and translated with an introduction by Vivian Nutton (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1979), pp. 69-101.3. G.E.R. Lloyd (ed), “Epidemics, Book 1.” Hippocratic Writings (New York: Penguin, 1978), pp. 29-47.4. Timothy Miller, “The Knights of St. John and the Hospitals of the Latin West.” Speculum 1978, 53: 709-33.5. Vivian Nutton, “Murders and Miracles: Lay Att...
