Medicine for the third millennium: an historical perspective.(commentary)

New Life Journal | August 1, 2004| | Copyright

A funny thing happened on the way to the new millennium: the practice of medicine became lost. Science made the trip, and so did the physicians themselves, with their instruments, hospitals, clinics, as well as regulations, insurance companies, HMOs, and of course drugs and pharmaceutical companies. Am I saying that most medical practices do not practice medicine? Well, not exactly.

By the turn of the Nineteenth Century, medicine was an art striving to become more scientific. At that time, a major medical subject was Materia Medica, a ponderous list of natural ...

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