scholarly journals Medical profession in the area of preventive medicine in Timok region: Medical bacteriology in the period from 1922 to 2013: Rajac School of Health

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 53-68
Author(s):  
Petar Paunović ◽  
Slađana Đorđević
Keyword(s):  
Preventive Medicine ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Medical Bacteriology

TRENDS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1952 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 648-650
Author(s):  
C. COLLINS-WILLIAMS
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Preventive Medicine ◽  
Educational Program ◽  
Causes Of Death ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
First Year ◽  
Concerted Effort ◽  
Third Place ◽  
Second Year ◽  
First Year Of Life

ACCIDENTS, at the present time, are one of the principal causes of death, particularly among children. In Canada approximately 1,500 children die each year as the result of accidents, a mortality greater than that due to the 10 acute infectious diseases of childhood combined. During the five year period 1942-46 inclusive, in Canada, accidents stood in eighth place as a cause of death during the first year of life, in third place during the second year, and in first place during each year after infancy up to the fifteenth birthday. During the same period, 21% of the deaths between the first and fifteenth birthdays were due to accidents. In this age of preventive medicine when our chief purpose as physicians is the prevention of morbidity and mortality, we, as pediatricians, cannot neglect this extremely important phase of child care. In any campaign to reduce the number of accidents, there are three ways in which the physician can play an important part. Firstly, the general public must be made aware of the seriousness of the situation and must be educated in the ways in which they, as citizens and parents, can help to reduce accidents. Secondly, the medical profession, working through its associations and publications, must stimulate all physicians to a concerted effort to reduce the number of accidents. Finally, and most important, the physician must concentrate on an educational program for his own private patients. A few words from the physician who looks after the child will do more to impress parents than will reams of propaganda published by someone unknown to them.

The Diagnosis of Viral Disease by Electron Microscopy

1982 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 270-273
Author(s):  
William B. McCombs ◽  
Cameron E. McCoy
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Hospital Stay ◽  
Viral Infections ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Bacterial Pathogens ◽  
Viral Disease ◽  
Viral Pathogens ◽  
Academic Interest ◽  
The Past

Recent years have brought a reversal in the attitude of the medical profession toward the diagnosis of viral infections. Identification of bacterial pathogens was formerly thought to be faster than identification of viral pathogens. Viral identification was dismissed as being of academic interest or for confirming the presence of an epidemic, because the patient would recover or die before this could be accomplished. In the past 10 years, the goal of virologists has been to present the clinician with a viral identification in a matter of hours. This fast diagnosis has the potential for shortening the patient's hospital stay and preventing the administering of toxic and/or expensive antibiotics of no benefit to the patient.

Amputation in fictional literature: the case of Hippolyte in Madame Bovary

VASA ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement 58) ◽  
pp. 3-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kauss
Keyword(s):  
Surgical Procedure ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Major Amputation ◽  
Madame Bovary

In his famous novel, published in 1856, Flaubert describes the circumstances of a failed surgical procedure ending up in a major amputation. Flaubert, whose father was a physician in Rouen/France, mocks at the medical profession and its victims and proves himself to be compassionate at the same time. About his writing, he explained: "I only measure shit into doses." ("Je ne fais autre chose que de doser de la merde.")

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