Wednesday 13 July 2011

Medicine


Medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health carepractices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of  llness.




Contemporary medicine applies health sciencebiomedical research, and medical technology to diagnose and treat injury and disease, typically through medication orsurgery, but also through therapies as diverse as psychotherapyexternal splints & tractionprosthesesbiologicsionizing radiation and others. The word medicine is derived from the Latin ars medicina, meaning the art of healing.
Though medical technology and clinical expertise are pivotal to contemporary medicine, successful face-to-face relief of actual suffering continues to require the application of ordinary human feeling and compassion, known in English as bedside manner.






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