The Impact of Technology in Healthcare

In 1628 the English doctor William Harvey made a floor-breaking discovery when he appropriately described the circulation of the blood in his Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus. Before this time probably the most helpful handbook in medicine used both by students and expert physicians was Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica, a pharmacopoeia. Healing included each physical and non secular therapeutics, similar to the proper herbs, a suitable food plan, clean bedding, and the sense that care was always at hand. Other procedures used to assist patients included the Mass, prayers, relics of saints, and music used to calm a troubled mind or quickened pulse.

Finally, in accordance with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, early half of the nation’s population–roughly 117 million people–are living with a persistent disease. The path to turning into a doctor begins in medical college, which … Read More