HSS 3305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Positive Mental Attitude, Gross Examination, Medical Laboratory
7 Jan 2019
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Modern medicine: advances relieve suffering and advance human welfare but do not guarantee good health. How do we know we are sick: symptoms: subjective manifestations such as pain or weakness, often are the result of body"s reaction to injury (trauma, infection by pathogen, etc. ) Major categories of human disease many diseases fit in multiple categories or fit poorly in any; may not be closely related in similarity or lesions or pathogenesis: vascular disease disturb blood vessels; i. e thrombosis, embolism. Idiopathic and iatrogenic disease idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy and medical intervention: heart swells and becomes inefficient at pumping blood. Diagnosis: determination of nature and cause of illness; use clinical history, physical examination, differential diagnosis. Prognosis: opinion about the eventual outcome of disease and the outlook for recovery. Physical examination systematic examination of patient, w emphasis on body parts affected by illness: abnormalities noted are correlated with clinical history focus on ears, throat, chest, lungs (in case of respiratory infection)
