Owsei Temkin, MD interviewed by Lloyd G. Stevenson, MD. D39.

Dr. Owsei Tempin describes his interest in the history of surgical intervention for epilepsy and the develoment of teaching medical history to medical students. He describes lectures by Sigerist and Welch's interest in teaching medical history. Dr. Temkin provides an interesting overview of early physicians and philosophers including Socrates and Plato, and states that "one should not believe what anyone tells one, or even what oneself thinks".