Medieval Medicine: The Roles Of Medieval Physicians

Medieval people viewed physicians in many ways depending on whether on that physician’s gender, religion, and level of education. It not only depended on the physician, but on the person. People differed in economic status and location.
The example of a doctor that everyone would view with admiration would be someone like Tomasso del Garbo due to his heritage and his education level. Medieval saw prestige and reputation as important factors in obtaining a doctor, especially before licensing was widely known. In Tomasso’s case, his father was a physician with additional roles which exemplified his reputation. Being skilled in different things was more important than being skilled in one thing. A general physician was admired much more than a surgeon due to the fact that a surgeon is typically specialized. Then again a general surgeon
More money meant you could be more picky.
Class was everything divided what you could and couldn’t do would rather be operated on by someone by their class
Being a professor meant he had enough skills to teach others impressive to know your stuff and be able to teach others too especially people who didn’t have the same opportunities seen as a type of charity.
He was recognized as an expert almost like a celebrity doctor like dr.oz has the prestige of being a doctor and being a celebrity especially before the evaluation standards of determining competence were developed.
There was already legal action by the church and some kings
They were seen as the legal recognitiions but now this responsibility was handed to doctors who since they are doctors themselves would know more specifically if another doctor was qualified while the church and kings didn’t since their expertise lied in either political or religious information
Examples of kings would be king roger ii of siciliy and his