Hulusi behcet biography for kids
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Hulusi Behçet: A life of devotion and endeavor in dermatology
Turkey has a well-organized health care system today with about 1.1 million personnel working in hospitals scattered all around the country, equipped with up-to-date devices and procedures. Although Turkey’s average is less than any other Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) country when it comes to statistics including the number of doctors per thousand citizens and the share of health expenditures in the gross national income, every citizen can obtain basic health care services in Turkey thanks to the universal health insurance system.
However, modern Turkish medicine operated within the framework of the military until 1933, when the first civil school of medicine was opened. Military schools educated the majority of the health care personnel until then.
Hulusi Behçet Uz, who first diagnosed and described the disease that was later named after him, was also a military physician. Trained and
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Çaogatay ÜSTÜN
Ege University, Faculty of Medicine, History of Medicine & Medical Ethics, Bornova Izmžr, Turkey.
Dr. Hulusi Behçet (1889-1948) is a famous Turkish dermatologist. He was born in Istanbul on February 20, 1889. His father was Ahmet Behçet and his mother Ayqse Behçet was also Ahmet's cousin. After the Turkish Republic was established and the "Family Name Law" was accepted, his father Ahmet Behçet, who was among the friends of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of Turkish Republic, received private permission to use his father's name Behçet. Dr. Hulusi Behçet pursued his education at Gülhane Military Medical Academy. After he had become a medical doctor, he specialized in dermatology and venereal disease at Gülhane Military Medical Academy and he completed his specialization in 1914. His first observations on Behçet's Disease started with a patient he met between 1924-1925. Dr. Behçet followed the symptoms of three patients whom he had had for years, then
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Hulusi Behçet
Turkish dermatologist (1889–1948)
Hulusi Behçet (Ottoman Turkish: خلوصی بهجت;[citation needed]; Turkish:[behˈtʃet]; 20 February 1889 – 8 March 1948) was a Turkish dermatologist and scientist. He described a disease of inflamed blood vessels in 1937, which is named after him as Behçet's disease.[1] His portrait was depicted on a former Turkish postcard stamp.[2]
Early life
[edit]Born to Turkish parents, as his father was an official in the Ottoman Empire, they emigrated to Damascus where he spent his early childhood after he lost his mother to an illness.[1]
Professional works
[edit]During World War I (1914–1918), he served at the military hospital in Edirne as a specialist in dermatology and venereal diseases and was assigned to the head of the hospital as an assistant.[1] After the war, between 1918 and 1919, he first went to Budapest, Hungary and then to Berlin, Germany to improve his medical k