Medical Updates 2022
Medgeeks with Andrew Reid
Medgeeks
4.8 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
The practice of medicine is called a practice because it involves constant attention, learning, and evolution of thought. In medicine we must make efforts to stay up to date with new guidelines and evidence that may change our disease management algorithms and paradigms.
Join Dr. Niket Sonpal this week as he reviews some of the new updates in Internal Medicine which undoubtedly will help change the way you think about disease states but also your patient approach.
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever wondered why we call it the practice of medicine? |
| 0:03.2 | In a popular sense and as it's ordinarily understood, |
| 0:06.3 | the practice of medicine is the applying of medical or surgical agencies |
| 0:09.9 | for the purpose of preventing, relieving, and curing disease. |
| 0:13.6 | It can also be for aiding natural functions or modifying or removing the results of physical |
| 0:19.0 | injury. |
| 0:20.0 | That's actually how it's looked upon by the law. |
| 0:22.5 | But for us who are in medicine, the practice of medicine is actually because of the fact |
| 0:28.4 | that we take time to see what it is that we're doing as interventions and testings and into see do these actually have good outcomes. |
| 0:36.7 | In other words, the practice of medicine or the term practicing medicine is the root of evidence-based practice. |
| 0:43.8 | In popular culture there's a widespread but undoubtedly misunderstood idea |
| 0:47.6 | that the practice of medicine derives its name |
| 0:50.0 | from the custom of administering so-called medicines. |
| 0:53.0 | And you've seen in other podcasts how we've talked about things in the past |
| 0:56.6 | that were thought of being medicine. |
| 0:58.3 | But again, we know that's not true. |
| 1:00.2 | Medicine is so much more, but it's also not the only field in which you practice. |
| 1:04.0 | It was actually first recorded as such in 1421 that the meaning continues to have |
| 1:09.0 | when we speak of practicing law or even medicine. |
| 1:12.0 | At around the same time, it seems to have been used as a meaning of exercising one skill or art in order to acquire or maintain proficiency, like in medicine, music, and law. |
| 1:23.0 | But it wasn't until 1542 that it was recorded as meaning to perform an activity |
| 1:28.0 | or exercise a skill repeatedly or regularly in order to acquire, improve, and maintain proficiency. |
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