Content tagged with "medicine"
“A term used in teaching hospitals to differentiate students from full, practicing physicians. I spoke to a cardiologist friend who told me the term isn’t used much outside of academia. In a teaching hospital, residents often provide services to patients, but they are not those patients’ assigned…”
“A special type of needle used specifically to deliver smallpox vaccine. It has two small prongs on the end, and it’s just deep enough to puncture the skin multiple times and deliver the vaccine to the correct depth. It was used heavily in the worldwide campaign to eradicate smallpox in the 1960s…”
“This categorizes the surface of red blood cells present in blood. Different blood types have red blood cells with different surface receptors. The profile of these receptors cause the body to recognize or reject cells as ‘belonging.’ If it rejects them, the body will fight off the foreign red blood…”
“I found a few reasons for this: Doctors and dentists have just been historically separated from each other. They train in different schools, and practice in different locations. Health insurance started in the 1920s and 1930s at hospitals, with doctors who practiced there. Since dentists never…”
“This is called ‘sublingual administration,’ as ‘lingual’ generally refers to the structures of the tongue and mouth. There is a large mucous gland under the tongue that supplies saliva to the mouth. Anything that comes into contact with this gland is absorbed into its capillaries, then into the…”
“This book was written by a physician and medical researcher. I’s a polemic against shady ‘alternative medicine’ practices and health conspiracy theories. To be clear, the author isn’t against more mainstream…alternative (?) stuff – things like chiropractic, essential oils, CBD, etc. What the author…”
“These are the stereotypical headgear worn by doctors in the past. A band goes around the head, and a circular mirror is attached to it. When it’s worn like this, it’s actually being stored, not used. To use it, the doctor would position it over one of their eyes. The mirror had a small hole in the…”
“Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C are the dangerous versions. Hepatitis is generally defined as inflammation of the liver. It can be caused two ways: Behavioral and environmental factors, like chronic alcoholism and some medications Several virus strains, including those denoted by letters (five of them;…”
“This was an era of medicine in the 1700s and 1800s where physicians performed extreme treatments on their patients in an attempt to ‘shock’ them out of whatever condition ailed them. Treatments such as bloodletting, purging, and sweating were common. These very likely caused more deaths than they…”
“A shockingly good book about the history of the greatest disease Man has ever known. The author tracks the history of cancer from when it was first identified in 4,500 BC through to the present day. The approach is holistic – the author examines cancer clinically, scientifically, politically,…”
“Thrilling story of a cholera outbreak in London in the 1850s, and the physician who tracked down the source. At the time, illness was thought to come from ‘bad air,’ but a physician named John Snow mapped the illnesses and determined that they were clustered around a water pump in Broad Street. No…”
