Health & Medicine - Staff of Aesclepius vs Staff of Hermes

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4. Mai 2017 03:59
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Hi folks,

I noticed today that the symbol used to represent Health & Medicine here is the double-serpent Staff of Hermes (Greek deity of commerce), rather than the single serpent Staff of Aesclepius (Greek deity of healing and medicine). The two symbols are commonly confused (and as a result both are generally accepted), but of the two the more accurate symbol is the Staff of Aesclepius. More detail ion Wikipedia here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_of_Asclepius (see 2nd sentence). What do folks think of changing the symbol to the Staff of Aesclepius?

Josh

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Inger Hohler

4. Mai 2017 18:33
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Hi Josh,

good question, good catch too, I've never noticed. Could you send me a link to a page where I can see this? I checked a couple of videos and the main pages for MCAT, and did not see it. You are quite correct, of course, there is only one snake on the staff of Aesclelpius.
Signy

2. Februar 2019 20:42
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Hey,

I noticed this same mistake when going the health and medicine page today. Either it hasn't been fixed two years ago or the mistake has reoccured.

https://www.khanacademy.org/science/health-and-medicine

It concers the symbols for:

Lab values...
Current events...
Health care system
Miscellaneous

Hope you awesome people can fix it.

PS. Some actual research done on this topic in the link below

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4190767/

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