He graduated from Harvard University. Despite being born and raised in America, she was the daughter of a family that was passionate about her country. She admired her hometown and especially the Ottoman foundations… She came to her homeland to study for a doctorate… This doctoral student, whose mother and father were both professors, came to Turkey for her doctoral study on the foundations of Hanım Sultan… this subject?" she sneered at him. “Couldn't you find anything else to research? And in a modern country like America…” they used to say. A doctoral student, an American Turkish girl, talked about the Nurbanu Sultan Foundation's Darüşşifa section to these upstart intellectuals who were involved in the culture of her own country.

-You would think that only in America, there is a patient rights law because it is modern.

-Yes, such a law has only recently come to the fore in Turkey.

-Now I'm going to read you a piece of my thesis…

“The provisions regarding the darüşşifa (hospital) built by the Nurbanu Valide Sultan Foundation in Istanbul are interesting. The doctors who will work in this hospital will be the most valuable doctors of their time. They will be paid the highest salary. But at the slightest indifference towards their patients, the money they receive will be forbidden.” He continued: “The Foundation's conditions regarding the hospital in question are very long and detailed: All the personnel to be employed in the hospital have been specified one by one and their qualifications have been enumerated. The duties of ophthalmologists, surgeons, janitors and laundresses, and how they should treat patients, are each detailed. Even the meals that will be served on Kandil nights have been determined.”

Then he gave the following meaningful warning to two academics who looked at him with surprise:

– The Ottomans started the issue of patient rights, which is considered to be a sign of the modernity of western countries today, exactly five centuries ago. Isn't that alone enough for me to research Hanım Sultan foundations?