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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.

Gohlman and standard medical-history pages record hospital and bedside practice in the vita cluster

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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

    Person

    Direct 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.

    1. FactGohlman and standard medical-history pages record hospital and bedside practice in the vita cluster
    2. strengthensDriverHealth-System Capacity
    3. strengthensIndicators (2)Hospital beds (per 1,000 people)
    Improving path

    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 normal

      6 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 normal

      7 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.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Gohlman, The Life of Ibn Sina (SUNY)SUNY Press · High credibility · verified
  2. 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.

  1. ActorAvicenna
  2. contributed toFactGohlman and standard medical-history pages record hospital and bedside practice in the vita cluster
  3. strengthensDriverHealth-System Capacity
  4. 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

https://factrail.ai/facts/av-hospital-practice-vita

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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