tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74773203568264230072011-04-21T15:17:08.368-07:00TV for PCnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7477320356826423007.post-19177342518055837462009-01-14T04:23:00.000-08:002009-01-14T04:24:31.375-08:00<p><b>Medicine</b> is the art and science of healing. It encompasses a range of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care" title="Health care">health care</a> practices evolved to maintain and restore <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health" title="Health">health</a> by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevention_%28medical%29" title="Prevention (medical)">prevention</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treatment" title="Treatment">treatment</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illness" title="Illness">illness</a>.</p> <p>Contemporary medicine applies <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_science" title="Health science">health science</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomedical_research" title="Biomedical research">biomedical research</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_technology" title="Medical technology">medical technology</a> to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnosis_%28medical%29" title="Diagnosis (medical)" class="mw-redirect">diagnose</a> and treat <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injury" title="Injury">injury</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease" title="Disease">disease</a>, typically through <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medication" title="Medication">medication</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surgery" title="Surgery">surgery</a>, or some other form of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therapy" title="Therapy">therapy</a>. The word <i>medicine</i> is derived from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> <i>ars medicina</i>, meaning <i>the art of healing</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine#cite_note-0" title=""><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine#cite_note-1" title=""><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a></sup></p> Though medical technology and clinical expertise are pivotal to contemporary medicine, successful face-to-face relief of actual <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffering" title="Suffering">suffering</a> continues to require the application of ordinary human <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feeling" title="Feeling">feeling</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compassion" title="Compassion">compassion</a>, known in English as <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedside_manner" title="Bedside manner">bedside manner</a></i>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7477320356826423007-1917734251805583746?l=ntrmedicine.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TV for PCnoreply@blogger.com0