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What is the process that the physician uses to provide consistent care to their patients? How can the method be repeated and taught to other students of medical care? What is the best way to use each of the steps of that process? When you look at the parts of the procedure, you will find variation in the disciplines but an overall agreement on how to approach the subject.
A physician may be hastily called to the home of an elderly person with few but violent symptoms. Almost immediately, the family is concerned for a prognosis where correctness is a matter of great importance. The medical professional uses their knowledge of pathology for the conclusion of the case in regards to the nature, cause and probably termination of the disease. It is a question of identification and not cure at this point.
Pathology 1. Study of the nature and cause of disease, which involves changes in
structure and function. |
PhysiologyScience of the functions of the healthy living organism and its components and the chemical and physical processes involved. |
One possible result of a thorough diagnosis is that the patient needs mechanical or hygienic attention. Another would be that the patient needs therapeutic attention. It would be the knowledge of pathology that would allow the physician to make the decision of a physical cause that should be removed surgically or in the environment or that the patient is in need of other treatment.
It is most important that the vision of what is in disorder is made clear by the knowledge of what is the normal functioning of the human body. For that reason, it would be wise to undertake the study of first aid, anatomy, pathology, and physiology on your own, through extension courses or what ever method suits your study habits.
TherapeuticsThe branch of medicine concerned with the application of remedies and the treatment of disease. |
HygieneThe study of health and observance of health rules. Study of the methods and means of preserving health. |
In working with physiology, we are concerned with the general stimuli and general susceptibilities of the human organism. To formulate the relationships of special stimuli and susceptibilities it is necessary to do many trials and errors, recording and verifying all of the actions and reactions. By deduction, then, are the empirical laws formed that become the laws of therapeutics.
After applying the special stimuli to the diseased organism, then comes the restoration and maintenance of a proper equilibrium of the general stimuli which is the science of hygiene.
In homeopathy, the science of therapeutics tends to lean towards the non-chronic ailments and thus towards a more conventional approach to the use of the remedies as drugs.
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