Advancements In The Field Of Medicine

Medicine has always been improving throughout the years, but the 1940s were one of the most critical times of how medicine is still practiced today. There were a lot of medical advancements in the 1940s. New antibiotics were discovered, new medical practices helped in the war effort, tests and organizations set up to help find problems in health or health care.

It hasn’t changed that the average person doesn’t like to feel pain or be ill. The evolution of medicine from 1776 to 1938 in the United States depended on the knowledge of current diseases and treatment at that time. The major diseases during this time were pneumonia, influenza, tuberculosis, gastrointestinal infections, heart disease and cerebrovascular disease.1 Ironically, much of those diseases still exist today. Over time, the world’s demand for drugs for any type of illness or disease drastically skyrocketed. Was the medicine really working or were people psyched into believing they had an illness? The diagnosis and treatment was incorrect many times, resulting in “shoulda, coulda, and wouldas” when dealing with diagnosis and medicine. Without a scientific basis, medical doctors, such as Benjamin Rush were ineffective with proper treatment, and quacks promoted strange treatments as to say: Yackedy Quack, Don’t Talk Back. By the end of the 20th Century, one could say American medicine was on the rise and researchers and physician were much more respected.

During any war, medical advancements are commonly made in response to the atrocities that take place during these bloody and gruesome times. World War II is no exception. During World War II, medical advances simply had to be made to keep soldiers alive. With all the victims of bullet wounds and diseases spreading around, treatments had to be invented or advanced. I chose this topic because science and medicine is very fascinating to me and I want to become a doctor when I grow up. During the war, penicillin, sulfanilamide, atabrine, plasma, and morphine were used in abundance and saved a countless number of lives.

During the industrial revolution disease was abundant compared to now and that it was worse than now. Medicine changed people's lives by fighting the diseases they got or caught. Most people did not live past 50-60 year old. Smallpox killed so many people it is one of the most remembered diseases, because of how many people it killed. Some of the symptoms of it were getting bumps on you then they fill up with pus that is basicly poisonous to us and other living things.by this time black death was pretty much gone. Tuberculosis was another disease that was around and they did not have a medicine for it so it was a lot worse back then than it is now. It would make you cough up blood or puke

In the 1950´s there was many medical advances and new technology found. The pacemaker and Thalidomide had immense influence on the medical industry today. Cpr and The heart and lung machine were also new upcoming technologies in the 1950ś.

Imagine waking up in the middle of the night, you’re sweating, coughing, and starting to throw up. In today’s world, doctors are available for situations like these. Before the 1800’s, doctors were not as common, and their techniques were questionable. It wasn’t until the 1800’s, that doctors and scientists began discovering and creating medicines and vaccines to help cure sickness and disease. During the 1800’s, there were very many medical advancements. Because there were a lot of medical advancements, there were conflictions such as medical/scientific concerns, ethical concerns, legal changes, and how the economy was affected.

In medicine there were many things that changed and some that stayed the same between 1350 and 1750. Initially I will be looking at medicine and treatment in the Ancient World as a prelude to its importance during the Renaissance period, and also the influence it may have had in the Middle Ages.

In the past, doctors have used old ways of writing prescriptions and keeping health records. The days of the doctor writing a prescription on a pad in handwriting only they can read are over. Also, electronic health records make accessing records a breeze. The doctor’s experience now is much easier now with implementations of virtual prescription, electronic health records, and the ability to speak with a doctor from the comfort of your own home. In the future, the experience will be made a lot easier by taking the human doctor out of the equation and providing a program that scans someone and comes up with a diagnosis within seconds.

The Institute of Medicine defines “Evidence-based practice as the integration and implementation of the best research evidence along with clinical expertise and patient values” (IOM 2001: 147). Speakers at the Upper Rio Grande Region IOM Future of Nursing Symposium last week strongly emphasized that nurses are to be the driving force behind the execution of evidenced based practice within the work places

Scientific advancements are constantly changing. There are many positive changes that are affecting people’s lives. The new food pyramid, medical reporting, and different labeling of taxonomy classes are making differences.

Everyone is a patient at some time or another, and we all want good medical care. We assume that doctors are all medical experts and that there is good research behind all their decisions. Today, the rat race is so fast and furious that everyone just wants good amount of salary, name and fame but neglect and do not pay any heed to good health. Physicians are smart, well trained and do their best to stay up to date with the latest research. But they can't possibly commit to memory all the knowledge they need for every situation, and they probably don't have it all at their fingertips. Even if they did have access to the massive amounts of data needed to compare treatment outcomes for all the diseases they encounter, they would still need time

Most scientist do not believe that animals are indispensable, and their argument for which is that many medical breakthroughs were established based on animal testing. An example of a medical breakthrough are the therapies used for the controlling of AIDS, established by injecting animals with the virus, and using their post-mortem organs to identify the exact cause of the virus. Most surgical techniques were also first perfected on animals, such as hip replacement and blood transfusions which save millions of lives every day. Smallpox, once an extremely deadly virus, was eradicated from our planet by the rise of vaccines discovered by animal testing. Not only do scientists argue that the evolvement of vaccines were aided by animals, but they

This excitement can be good, bad or in some cases, misleading. The medical field has vastly made its way into a huge money pit of enduring “technological advances”. But, the advances are sometimes not always what they seem to be. Looking ahead, the questions we need to ask ourselves would be: are we getting to excited too quickly when it comes to the amount of anticipation we have about the advances in the medical field? Is there a chance we look for the potential of these “revenge effects” with it all? While trying to discover an answer to these questions, I feel as though people need to take a step back and realize that we will never know right now, what these advances will do for us in the near future whether its change us negatively or positively. Harmful or safe, watchfulness should always be done when it comes to medical technology. Thankfully, the knowledge and skills used with the equipment, has and will continue to save millions and millions of lives now and in the future. The diagnosis of new vaccines and miracle drugs has increased the existence of this population by about twenty years.

Besides the computer revolution, medical advances have caused tension between faith and reason. The medical advances of the Twentieth Century have many beneficial effects for humanity. Diseases that used to be dangerous or life threatening, like mumps, measles, and whooping cough, are no longer worries in todays medical world. Tetanus, typhoid, and the bubonic plaque can now be treated with antibiotics or other medicines. Vaccines, especially the polio vaccine, freed many people from the effects of a disease. Advances in heart surgery and organ transplants have saved many lives. Anesthetics and painkillers have been made to reduce or eliminate pain during surgery or a painful disease. Advances in cancer and AIDS have

[T]raditional education has students focusing on one career at a time, generally encompassing a very specific field of interest. Students interested in the field of medicine study biology and don’t generally study much outside of science. Or, students interested in music study musical theory and learn several different instruments – they don’t cross over into other fields of thought. This type of learning, however, really doesn’t reflect the way the world works. It doesn’t even properly reflect human experience: many students are puzzled when it comes to choosing a field of study. They settle on one because there hasn’t been an option available that combines their interests in a practical way, or it simply isn’t shown to them.