It is now a firmly established belief that legal and ethical considerations are integral to medical practice in the planning for the care of the patient. With the advances in medical sciences and growing sophistication of the legal framework in modern society as well as increasing awareness of human rights and changing moral principles of the community at large‚ doctors and other healthcare workers alike are now frequently caught in difficult dilemmas in many aspects arising from daily practice
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Technology in Medicine Since technology in medicine changed with each passing day‚ robotic surgery and cyber surgery are often regarded as the new revolution (Lanfranco et al. 2004). They bring considerable benefits into medicine area which allows surgeons to overcome the obstacles in some emergency (Achievements‚ Health Sciences‚ Media Release 2011). In addition‚ it is no doubt that robotic surgery and cyber surgery are the most popular topics in surgery today (Lanfranco et al. 2004). So it is
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“Herbal medicine: giving patients an unknown dose of an ill-defined drug‚ of unknown effectiveness and unknown safety.” —David Colquhon Herbal supplements are non-pharmaceutical non-food substances marketed to improve health. Herbalism (herbal medicine‚ botanical medicine) is the use of plant-derived substances‚ and sometimes other environmental substances‚ to treat or cure medical conditions. Herbalism recognizes that pre-industrial cultures had a great deal of practical medical knowledge‚ most
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Psychosomatic Medicine This field of study closely examines the relationship between the body and the mind. It studies the impacts of internal factors on bodily processes. It combines knowledge from psychology‚ psychiatry‚ neurology‚ biology and psychoneuroimmunology 1. It investigates to what degree the psyche influences the body. It is not solemnly human affair‚ for example experiments showed that rats react to certain mental stimulus similarly like men. Although psychosomatic medicine is quite
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The traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine are both of significance in the field of medicine‚and we cannot simply say which is better.But they have many differences in the origin‚the methods to diagnose and the therapeutic effects. Firstly‚ everything must have a beginning‚ so do traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine.The traditional Chinese medicine refers to a broad range of medicine practices sharing the theoretical concepts which are based on a tradition of more than
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Chemicals in medicines Rakesh Mohan Hallen The words medicine’ and ’drug’ are often used in our country to mean the same substances: any substance‚ manufactured artificially‚ which can help recovery from sickness‚ relieve symptoms or modify a natural process in the body. A medicine is often a mixture of several chemical compounds. Even if it has only one active component compound often other substances are used as fillers or binders to give it bulk. Chemistry‚ the science related to chemical substances
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Ayurveda (Sanskrit: आयुर्वेद; Āyurveda‚ "the knowledge for long life"; /ˌaɪ.ərˈveɪdə/[2]) or ayurvedic medicine is a Hindu system of traditional medicine native to India and a form of alternative medicine. The earliest literature on Indian medical practice appeared during the Vedic period in India‚[3] i.e.‚ in the mid-second millennium BCE. The Suśruta Saṃhitā and the Charaka Saṃhitā‚ encyclopedias of medicine compiled from various sources from the mid-first millennium BCE to about 500 CE‚[4] are among the
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meets the scalpel? Today’s medicine is vastly different than it has ever been in our history and society. We are able to fix‚ cure and repair almost anything we want in the human body. When the average person thinks of how medicine has affected the American culture‚ many things- mostly good ones come to mind. However‚ in the past 100 years it has had a lot of negative impact as well. It is important to look at both the positive and the negative effects medicine and the health industry represent
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The integration of Chinese Medicine into mainstream healthcare can only be achieved if the philosophy and practice of biomedicine are accepted by all practitioners alike. Western Medicine (WM) and Chinese Medicine (CM) are the two most extensively used medical systems throughout the world today‚ the two systems were integrated successfully throughout China in 1949 when Chairman Mao developed the Chinese health care system into one more adequate for the population of China. Chairman Mao is quoted
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Complementary medicine treatments have increased in the last years as an alternative way to treat some illnesses due to the fear that people feel with mainstream medicine and its consequences. But has this kind of medicine the power to cure all diseases like cancer or AIDS? We find some advantages that make us trust in alternative medicine. Firstly‚ herbal medicine brings us a lot of benefits for our helth. For instance‚ there are some researches that show marijuana infusion is very good for cancer
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