Gohlman and standard medical-history pages record hospital and bedside practice in the vita cluster
Gohlman’s 1974 Life, with NLM and Britannica’s independent medical-history pages, records the physician as a practitioner in courts and cities, including the received hospital-and-bedside surround of Islamic medicine. In the causal graph this event strengthens Health-System Capacity, a driver that strengthens Hospital beds (per 1,000 people) — an improving welfare path.
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Gohlman’s 1974 Life, with NLM and Britannica’s independent medical-history pages, records the physician as a practitioner in courts and cities, including the received hospital-and-bedside surround of Islamic medicine. The dated English vita is 1974. It is not a surviving bimaristan payroll. It is a public heading that later hospital historians cite.
Context
Court-first access is the worsening twin.
Avicenna is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Avicenna
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.28 · verified
Named physician-philosopher as heading of later editions, faculties, and commemorations. Printers, faculties, and agencies publish the instrument.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactGohlman and standard medical-history pages record hospital and bedside practice in the vita cluster
- strengthensDriverHealth-System Capacity
- strengthensIndicators (2)Hospital beds (per 1,000 people)
impact weight 0.35 · Effect from 1 January 1974 · verified
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.21 (weight 0.35 × strength 0.6)
Observed
3.08 Per 1000 people · 1.24 below the normal line (2023)
Worse than normal6 readings, 2018–2023: rose from 3.07 Per 1000 people to 3.08 Per 1000 people.
Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.17 (weight 0.35 × strength 0.5)
Observed
37.4 deaths per 1,000 live births · 12.4 above the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal7 readings, 2018–2024: fell from 40 deaths per 1,000 live births to 37.4 deaths per 1,000 live births.
Above normal = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Gohlman, The Life of Ibn Sina (SUNY)SUNY Press · High credibility · verified
- 2.NLM — Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts: The Canon of AvicennaU.S. National Library of Medicine · High credibility · verified
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorAvicenna
- contributed toFactGohlman and standard medical-history pages record hospital and bedside practice in the vita cluster
- strengthensDriverHealth-System Capacity
- strengthensIndicatorHospital beds (per 1,000 people)
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Factrail. (2026). Gohlman and standard medical-history pages record hospital and bedside practice in the vita cluster. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/av-hospital-practice-vita
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Accessed 16 October 2026.
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