Family Medicine: A medicine with compassion By Dr. MARIAM IJAZ My first rotation was Family medicine and on the very first day I was very much impressed and motivated by the direct involvement of doctors with the patients. The environment the ideology all attracted me and I enjoyed and enhanced many important traits like communication‚ compassion and counseling. Family medicine is based on continuity of care. The patient-physician
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Throughout the history of medicine‚ many innovations have occurred that impacted the world and vastly transformed the future of medicine. In my opinion‚ the four most important innovations in medicine are Vesalius’s book and view on anatomy‚ inoculation and vaccination‚ the microscope‚ and MRIs and CAT scans. The 16th century contained some of the greatest innovations of all time; one in particular was Vesalius’s anatomy book‚ De humani corporis fabrica. Vesalius’s book was the first medical book
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fact‚ the number of patients who have used traditional medicine to cure their health is increasing. This essay will examine some of the arguments for and against alternative medicine. There are two main ideas in support of alternative medicine. The first important arguments is herbal medicine is from nature. Therefore‚ there are many advantages such as it has less side-effect than Western medicine. One other reason people use traditional medicine is that it has been used for a long time. For example
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n a way‚ personalized medicine has been around for as long as people have been practicing medicine. In fact‚ Hippocrates‚ Greek physician and so-called "Father of Western Medicine" who practiced some 2‚500 years ago‚ was himself a proponent of personalized medicine (Sykiotis et al.‚ 2005). For example‚ in one of his over 70 works of ideas and teachings‚ Hippocrates wrote about the individuality of disease and the necessity of giving "different [drugs] to different patients‚ for the sweet ones do
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and 1992‚ infectious diseases nearly halved. These statistics clearly show that modern medicine has advanced so much alongside with the new treatments and marvelous surgery (Porter‚ 1997). Medicine has become one of the most important aspect of humans‚ which no other species acquire. The root of medicine may be found in the philosophical and religious traditions it have grown out of. “Traditional medicine is the sum total of the knowledge‚ skills‚ and practices based on the theories‚ beliefs
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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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Running Head: NANOTECHNOLOGY AND UNDERSTANDING ITS CONCEPTS IN MEDICINE Nanotechnology and Medicine Gladys Masker Contemporary Applications of the Sciences SCI215 Argosy University Online NANOTECHNOLOGY AND UNDERSTANDING ITS CONCEPTS IN MEDICINE To understand the concepts of nanotechnology and its uses‚ we must first get an understanding of what nanotechnology is. The size of a nanometer is a billionth of a meter‚ or 10-9 of a meter. To illustrate the size of a manometer‚ picture 100
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LAGUNDI Lagundi (scientific name: Vitex negundo) is a large native shrub that grows in the Philippines and has been traditionally used as herbal medicine. The Philippine Department of Health has conducted research and study for Lagundi and has suggested that the lagundi plant has a number verifiable therapeutic value Lagundi is an erect‚ branched tree or shrub‚ that grows to as much as 5 m high. Lagundi has a single thick‚ woody stem like a trunk and is usually seen in swamps of the Philippines
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Shaan Sarode Ms. Davis English IV – Per. 3 20 October 2010 Impact of Medieval Medicine Imagine when a friend gets sick or catches a “bug”‚ they may have two different reactions to it. The first is the realistic approach‚ which re-visits their recent actions and pinpoints the cause of the symptoms. The other is the non-realistic‚ which tends to blame supernatural causes. People during the medieval times almost always blamed the supernatural as the cause of these diseases. There were also many
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Hallucinogens as Medicine 1 Hallucinogens as Medicine Melody Gambino Psychology 101 Hallucinogens as Medicine 2 Abstract The article discusses research on the use of hallucinogens for medical therapies applicable to cancer‚ drug addiction‚ and psychological problems. Studies being undertaken at Johns Hopkins University are discussed. Johns Hopkins’ research on hallucinogens includes assessment of the drug’s psychospiritual effects among volunteers
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