The Philosophy of Professor Valtis

Harisios Boudoulas, MD, Dr., Dr. Hon.Professor of Medicine/Cardiovascular Medicine and Pharmacy (emeritus)

Honorary Professor, Academician (an. mem.)Honorary President Biomedical Research Foundation Academy of Greece,

Council Member Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Dimitrios J. ValtisProfessor, Chairman, A Department of Internal Medicine

Dean of Medical SchoolAristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece

«Γενεά kαι γενεά επαινέσει τα έργα σου…»- Ψαλμός 144, στ. 4

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- Aristotelis

Philosophy and Spirit of Professor Valtis

‒ Physician‒ Teacher of Medicine‒ Department Chairman – Leader ‒ Example for Future Generations

Philosophy and Spirit of Professor Valtis

‒ Physician‒ Teacher of Medicine‒ Department Chairman – Leader ‒ Example for Future Generations

Full Attention to Patient Without Distraction

Hematology

Other

Biochemistry

Radiology

The Patient Was Always the Center of His Focus

Microbiology

Hematology

Other

Biochemistry

Radiology

Microbiology

The secret of patient care is in caring for the patient

Physician

ClinicalExperience

Science /Technology

Ethics

If a doctors life may not be a divine vocation, then no life is a vocation and nothing is divine

Philosophy and Spirit of Professor Valtis

‒ Physician‒ Teacher of Medicine‒ Department Chairman – Leader ‒ Example for Future Generations

Teacher of Medicine“Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.”

- William Butler Yeats

‒ Continuous stimulation

‒ Constant example of what it takes to be a great physician.

‒ Integrity, honesty, responsibility and dedication to the sick.

‒ Intense program of training with attention to detail without losing the big picture

‒ Demands from students to excel

‒ Always fair

‒ Textbook of internal medicine

Basic Mechanisms and Thinking Were Emphasized

Factors (n) Probabilities (2n–1)

5 31

10 1,023

20 1,048,575

50 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,999

“Socratic dialogues”

‒Difference between memory and thinking‒Accumulation versus movement of facts‒Moving the facts you can solve problems

René Magritte. La Clairvoyance, 1936

New Era in Internal Medicine Based on Pathophysiology

The Quality of Medical Care for an Individual Patient is Related to the Clinician’s Decision and Action

(judgement)

ACTIONDECISION

(What to do) (How to do)

Diagnostic Process -Self Assessment

Philosophy and Spirit of Professor Valtis

‒ Physician‒ Teacher of Medicine‒ Department Chairman – Leader ‒ Example for Future Generations

Department Chairman - Leader“Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.” - Emerson, Progress in Culture

Personnel of the clinic

He realized that the fate of the clinic lies in the men and women who work there and the ideals which they cherish and teach.

A Department of Internal Medicine: Expectations from the Faculty

‒ Respect with integrity but not servility

‒ High ethical standards

‒ Dedication to the sick

‒ To excel

‒ To achieve the maximum of their capacity (high goals)

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A Department of Internal Medicine: Spirit of the Faculty

‒ Privilege to contribute to the education of future physicians and to the progress of medicine

‒ Privilege of caring for the sick

‒ Any assignment was considered an opportunity to learn

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A Department of Internal Medicine at the Time

‒Learning environment; continuous discussions among faculty members, “Small Plato Academy”

‒Dedication to the sick

‒Referral center (Greece, other countries) for patients with multiple and difficult medical problems

“The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.” - Aristotelis

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A Department of Internal Medicine: Achievements

‒ Internal medicine based on pathophysiology was introduced in Greece

‒ First successful kidney transplantation in Greece

‒ First artificial kidney unit in northern Greece

‒ Coronary arteriography, electrophysiologic studies in northern Greece

‒ Coronary bypass surgery (Prof Lazarides) in northern Greece

‒ Renal artery stenosis in arterial hypertension

‒ Endocrinologic causes of arterial hypertension

‒ Aspirin as an antiplatelet agent

‒ Other

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The Continuous Evolution of Medicine and the Constant Role of the Physician

Continuous changing of diseases

ClinicalApplications

MedicalScience

MedicalTechnology

The Physician must follow the evolution of medicine

Professor Valtis and his Vision

@ High technology@ Judgment@ Humanennes

A Department of Internal Medicine:Achievements of Faculty Members

‒ Professors of medicine in Greece and abroad

‒ Presidents or deans of medical schools

‒ Founders of new medical schools in Greece

‒ Directors in major clinics or laboratories

‒ Directors of research centers

‒ Academicians

‒ Presidents of scientific societies in Greece and abroad

‒ Developed new fields in Greece (e.g. bone marrow transplantation)

‒ Members of University Council in Greece

‒ Other

“If I have seen further, it is only because I stood on the shoulders of giants.”

- Isaac Newton, letter to Robert Hooke, 1675

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Καθηγητής Δ. Βαλτής

Philosophy and Spirit of Professor Valtis

‒ Physician‒ Teacher of Medicine‒ Department Chairman – Leader ‒ Example for Future Generations

“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it was too low and we reach it.”

- Michelangelo, 1475-1564

The past does not depend on us but the future does.

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”

- Henry B. Adams

Ethos

Pathos

Logos

Professor Dimitrios J. Valtis: Physician, Teacher of Medicine, Leader

Education

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The Quality of the Student and the Teacher in Education

“The fate of an institution lies in the men and women who work in its halls and in the ideals which they cherish and teach”

Sir William Osler

“…the secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient.”

Peabody, FW

The Care of the Patient

Το μυστικό της ιατρικής περίθαλψης είναι η φροντίδα για τον ασθενή

“if a doctor’s life may not be a divine vocation, then no life is a vocation and nothing is divine”

Stephen Paget – Confessio Media

«εάν η ζωή του Ιατρού δεν μπορεί να είναι θεϊκό

λειτούργημα, τότε καμία ζωή δεν είναι λειτούργημα και τίποτα δεν είναι θεϊκό»

ΙΗΤΡΟΣ ΓΑΡ ΑΝΗΡ ΠΟΛΛΩΝ ΑΝΤΑΞΙΟΣ ΑΛΛΩΝΙπποκράτης

Επί της πρώτης επιτυχούς μεταμοσχεύσεως νεφρού επί ανθρώπου παρ’ ημίν.Κ. Τούντας, Δ. Βαλτής, Α. Μαρσέλος, Γ. Μπλάτζας, Χ. Μπουντούλας, Φ. Χαρσούλης, Δ. Τούσης, Χ. ΠισιώτηςΕλληνική Ιατρική, 1968

Dimitrios J. ValtisProfessor, Director A’ Department of Internal Medicine

Dean of Medical SchoolAristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece

«Γενεά χαι γενεάεπαινέσει τα έργα σου…»

Ψαλμός 144, στ. 4

Dedication to Students

‒ Demands from students to excel‒ Always fair‒ Internal medicine book