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Practice Listening: Multiple Choice, Single Answer
ID: #33443
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Roman doctors
Transcript:
Okay, class today we will talk about Roman doctors at the beginning of the first century. As we noted in our previous class. There was a fifteen year long war after Julius caesar was assassinated. The war was severe, the number of injured was so many. There were so many that it became one of the top priorities of the new emperor. To give medical care to those in need. It was around this time that the new emperor augustus started thinking about upgrading the status of doctors. He realized that medical care was key to the empire, and especially an army. In order to improve the medical system, he needed better doctors. So he started making the profession look more enticing. All army doctors were entitled to attend the new army medical school and were given dignified titles, land grants and special retirement benefits. Before this, doctors had a fairly low status.
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