Medical Science : The Healer Of The Future

The bio-medical model of ill health has been at the forefront of western medicine since the end of the eighteenth century and grew stronger with the progress in modern science. This model underpinned the medical training of doctors. Traditionally medicine had relied on folk remedies passed down from generations and ill health was surrounded in superstition and religious lore with sin and evil spirits as the culprit and root of ill health. The emergence of scientific thinking questioned the traditional religious view of the world and is linked to the progress in medical practice and the rise of the biomedical model. Social and historical events and circumstances were an important factor in its development as explanations about disease

I love the sciences and find every bit of them exciting and fascinating. I understand that becoming a medical practitioner isn't just about the sciences and the chemistry behind it all, it also includes the human aspect of health sciences.  As a doctor, your "niche" in this world is to alleviate the pain of others. Having lived and grown up in Zimbabwe, I had seen suffering, I had seen pain. When I saw relatives devastatingly ill, it ached within me that I wasn’t able to do anything. Contrasted with the doctor stories I saw on the television, I was convinced that this was not how it was supposed to

The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee is not just a book about cancer; it is a story about one disease’s ability to change the course of humanity. My father handed me the book when I was thirteen, and it changed the way I thought about medicine. This new perspective complemented my fascination with maps, which allowed me to understand the many places and people I could never see. After years of flipping through atlases and reading about cancer in my father’s office, I realized the remarkable role doctors have had in pushing the progression of the human race. I quickly became infatuated with medicine and its impact on the world. From stepping into the emergency room at my local hospital to see the effect of medicine on people first-hand to presenting a website about

As described by Dr. Atul Gawande in his book Complications, medicine “is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge… fallible individuals” making medicine different from other scientific fields

Exploring various research opportunities on campus and summer internships have allowed me to shape what I want my future to look like. When the time approached to set my personal and professional goals, I made a conscientious decision to enter a field that would allow me to leave a positive impact on mankind, while adding to the current body of research. There is more that can be done by combining research and medicine, and additional steps I can take to enhance scientific advances. These convictions, coupled with my passion for medicine and science, were significant factors in my interest in becoming a physician-scientist, pursuing an MD-PhD. As a scientist, I see how creation and innovation can aid. As a future medical doctor, I see the need to treat, heal, and

In the 20th century, a lot of remarkable discoveries in medicine, which were created by talent doctors and scientists, have greatly affected the lives of people. In order to create important inventions, many scientists just work by themselves in their unique projects. Nevertheless, some of them work in a similar field and even corporate together in scientific experimentation like E. Donnall Thomas and Gertrude B. Elion. Donnall figured out a bone marrow transplantation treatment for human while Elion discovered a new drug to cure AIDS. Interestingly, E. Donnall Thomas and Gertrude B. Elion have several similarities in their education, families and career achievements.

A physician must be well rounded in a variety of fields to provide effective care. First, an interest in learning scientific knowledge must be accompanied by the ability to translate that knowledge into methods of treatment. Because science is constantly changing and improving, a physician should be continuously expanding their scientific learning within and outside of their respective fields. Most of the coursework that I have taken reflects my interest in the intersection between biomedical science and its applications through an anthropological lens. For example, I have performed public

As a child, I was fueled by curiosity to crack open computers and examine each piece to diagnose their individual contributions to the overall system. Driven by the same inquisitive character, I was drawn to the intricacies of the human body which shared many similarities with these complex machines. My thirst for further understanding of the human body and desire to translate my initial interest into an opportunity to improve the lives of those around me began my journey into medicine.

The more that we study the human body and learn more about it the greater our medical knowledge will become. Furthering the education of health and medicine benefits everyone. Without continuing the education of the human body the less we will accomplish. 100 years into the future medication will be a thing of the past. That’s why it’s important to learn about how the advancement of medicine, surgery, and technology have benefited our culture. Soon we will be able to say that we have the cure to alzheimer's, cancer, and

The administrator shared that many employees are “passionate” He explained that physicians come to the organization with many years of experience and contribute their extensive knowledge. Many doctors continue their passion for research and dedicate an average of 20 years well past their retirement as they love the work that

The General public is always linked with the medical field as life is becoming more comfortable and more advanced technology is being used. No doubt life is becoming comfortable, at the same time the greater use of technology is increasing the number of diseases which need to be cured. That's why the medical career is getting vast and more people are taking interest to join this career with different

A physician scientist with a background in medicine and research should be a leader and motivator in the scientific community to improve medicine. In the development of new biomedical technologies, the role of a physician scientist is to translate them for clinical applications and further identify potential research areas for scientists to explore based on their experiences in the clinic. This duality of a physician scientist is important and we need more of these people that can serve as a communicator of science and research. Although this career path is not easy, being a physician scientist entails much more than just being both a researcher and a doctor at the same time.

Thinking back to what made me consider the medical field, I don’t remember considering any other field. Before I could even understand what physicians actually did, I knew that they had a major impact on a person’s life. It is obvious that doctors save life everyday, but the way they save lives was always interesting to me.Beyond all the medicine and surgery, a physician takes the time to guide and support every patient. Being a physician is not purely ingrained in science, nor is it purely ingrained in humanism. It was the unique combination of both that drew me to consider being a physician.

There have been many advances in the medical field such as; anesthesia, drugs, machines, etc. This has helped the doctors find alternative solutions to problems, and in return has helped them save more lives. In the article “Medicine” by Britannica, “Many new advances in anesthesia, and these in turn depend upon engineers who have devised machines and chemists produced new drugs. Other operations are made possible by new materials, such as the alloys and plastics that are used to make artificial hip and knee joints.” Advances in the medical field have truly helped modern doctors. Without the medicine, machines, technology they have now there’s no way the doctors could have saved the same amount of lives. As Brian Ward, the author of “The Story of Medicine”, states in his book, “Despite opposition, revolutionary scientists and doctors persevered and made some ground breaking discoveries,” (Ward 22). Even though the doctors during the Renaissance had little technology, they still made discoveries that impacted the medical field. The discoveries made by the Renaissance doctors were life saving. However, with the given technology that is commonly found in modern day society doctors are able to impact the medical and scientific fields and by doing so, save more lives than thought possible during the Renaissance. Within the article “Medicine” written by Britannica, it shows the importance of, “Many other developments in modern surgical treatment rest on a firm basis of experimentation, often first in animals but also in humans; among them are Renal dialysis (artificial kidney), arterial bypass operations, embryo implantation, and exchange transfusions.” Although testing on animals is cruel, it shows that modern doctors were not just experimenting on people. The modern doctors had a thought process to reduce the amount of deaths due to

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” With these words, Socrates stated the creed of reflective men and women and set the task for ethics: to seek, with the help of reason, a consistent and defensible approach to life and its moral dilemmas (Walters 22). Ethical inquiry is important to us when we are unsure of the direction in which we are heading. “New philosophy calls all in doubt,” wrote John Donne in the wake of the Copernican Revolution and of Charles I’s violent death, suggesting that new thoughts had challenged old practices (Donne). Today, new practices in the biomedical sciences are challenging old thoughts: “New medicine calls all in doubt” (Walters 22).