RATIONAL VALUES AS REFINED AESTHETIC MOLD-ERASMUS DARWIN

Medical profession helps people not only by healing the body but also the soul. Medicine has been by man's side since its beginnings, and a society that lacks care for man is doomed to suffering. Even if sometimes the doctors who became literate abandoned the path of practicing medicine, their thoughts turned consciously or not to this noble profession. As Richard Gordon said, without medicine we could not talk about the human being himself: "Man's activities have been hopelessly open to disaster since that calamitous business of the serpent in the Garden of Eden. Best treatment is to admit, to analyze, to avoid. Medicine readily confesses its share. But what a disaster, were there no doctors amid the world's unending catalogue of disasters."1 Literature is just one of the languages that doctors use to relate to the world and reality. Of all the exact sciences, medicine is the closest to literary fiction. The art of the word is a reference to what defines us as people. Human gregariousness had to be supported through communication, and medicine has language as its main means of existence and of creating deep inter-human connections. Hence the naturalness of the expression of deep feelings on the page written by those who heal their fellow men physically.