The History of Medicine

Have you ever thought about how the medical field advances? Have you ever thought about the history of medicine?  The article How Technology Is Changing the Medical and Health Care Field from the Huffington Post by a tech writer named Drew Hendricks will tell you how technology is changing the medical field.

SOURCE: https://www.asme.org

Over the centuries, new medical developments and techniques have changed the face of healthcare.

• Q: Okay, well then what is the history of medicine to begin with?
• A: The ancient Egyptians had a system of medicine that was very advanced for its time and influenced later medical traditions. The Egyptians and Babylonians both introduced the concepts of diagnosis, prognosis, and medical examination. The Greeks went even further, and advanced as well medical ethics. The oath that is historically taken by physicians, the Hippocratic Oath, was written in Greece in the 5th century BCE; although it significantly changed from the original.

• Q: How are the people working in the medical able to do better in the situations?
• A: As biomedical research improves, the people working in the medical field are able to do better in and on the situation that must be needed to attend to.

• Q: What and how has enabled us to revolutionize the medical field?
• A: Population science is essentially the study of health and illness within groups. In the past, public health workers primarily applied this field of study during outbreaks. Now, new technology has enabled the study of population science to revolutionize the medical field.

• Q: What allows doctors to figure out more information about a symptom and treat it?
• A: Evidence-based guidelines allow doctors to figure out the likely causes of a symptom and the best way to treat it.  

• Q: What advancements have been made and improved the medical field; such as in medical billing?
• A: Medical billing and coding has changed from being a paper-based system to a computerized format. This makes it easier for doctors to see the medical records and carry out their processes in the medical field more efficiently.

• Q: What other technology has been incorporated into the medical field?
• A: Also, there has been a machine known as the “International Statistical Classification of Diseases, or the ICD-10”, is the latest revision of a diagnostic tool, only making the medical field more efficient and improved.

• Q: What do you planning on researching in the future blog posts?
• Well, I am thinking about researching how the medical procedures have been proven to be working.