Whoever started putting the ancient Greek icon on American public health officers’ uniforms had it confused with another snake-and-staff symbol. The caduceus is the “Born in the U.S.A.” of ...

In the world of medicine, one of the most recognised yet often misunderstood symbols is the Caduceus. From ambulances to hospital logos and doctors’ vehicles, the Caduceus frequently appears as ...

The medical symbol of serpents wrapped around a staff ... The winged version is known as a caduceus and the stick is actually a staff that was carried by the Olympian god Hermes.

Pointing out that even doctors in the United States were wrongly using Caduceus as a symbol of medicine for long, he said that the mistake had been corrected now. However, the mistake was yet to ...

In my April, What’s Your Diagnosis? column, I introduced some of you to the great Persian physician, Rhazes, known as the “Father of Pediatrics.” For this blog, I thought we would go back a ...

The U.S. Army Medical Corps chose the caduceus as its symbol in 1902. "Since then the politics of health care have grown more twisted and tangled than the two snakes entwined around the staff in a ...

Most of us barely glance at the symbol for human medicine, let alone veterinary ... It was known as the caduceus. A totally different Greek god, a lesser god who was not as well-known as Hermes ...