"A physician, medical
practitioner (British
English), medical doctor,
or simply doctor is
a health
professional who practices medicine,
which is concerned with promoting,
maintaining or restoring health through
the study, diagnosis, prognosis and
treatment of disease, injury,
and other physical and mental impairments.
Physicians may focus their practice on
certain disease categories, types of
patients, and methods of treatment—known as specialties—or
they may assume responsibility for the
provision of continuing and comprehensive
medical care to individuals, families, and
communities—known as general
practice. Medical practice properly
requires both a detailed knowledge of
the academic
disciplines, such as anatomy and physiology, underlying
diseases, and their treatment, which is
the science of
medicine, and a decent competence in
its applied practice, which is the art or craft of
the profession." Source
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Doctors
(Physicians) have
always been the
centerpiece of
medicine. Men and
women have generally
entered the
profession to help
people not for how
much money they can make.
People have gone to
them for treatment
of their aches
and pains, which
plague their lives.
Humans trust
them to provide them
with comfort,
understanding and a
path to a good and
happy health and
future. Lately
however with the
advent of a shortage
of doctors, the
corporatization of
the health industry,
the limiting of
college applicants
and the growing
utilization of
Artificial
Intelligence,
the profession has
taken a dramatic
turn. Often one must
wait a great deal of
time to schedule an
appointment (if one
is available), find
a doctor (often told
he or she is no
longer taking new
patients or not
accepting Medicare,
Medicaid or certain
insurance. When
someone finally sees
a doctor the session
is short and often
inconclusive. The
doctor will be more
interested in what
is on the computer
screen and less
interested in what
the patient is
saying. A new
development is the
assigning the
patient 's care to a
nurse and never
really seeing or
treating them. Thus
the patient is sent
away with a
prescription and
vague instructions.
This is not the way
it is suppose to be,
medical schools
should never
artificially limit
candidates, doctors
should be free
agents in dealing
with patients, not
limited in time,
prognosis and
artificial
standards, patients
should be treated
and diagnosed by the
doctor not a nurse
(however she or he
should be available
in a support
position),
governments
,insurance companies
and corporations
should not dictate
procedures,
treatments and
diagnosis. Doctors
must always hold the
standards of First
Do No Harm! |
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