Lecture 1: INTRODUCTION TO HOM Flashcards
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medicine?
scienceand practice of establishing thediagnosis,prognosis,treatment, andpreventionofdisease and promoting of health
medicine derived from latin medicus, meaning a physician
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Health?
state of physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity
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Disease?
- a particular abnormal condition
- affects the structure or normal functional of all/part of an organism.
- is not due to any immediate external injury
medical conditions associated with specific signs and symptoms
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Sickness?
- a disordered, weakened, or unsound condition
- something with a n individual is out of allignment, lacking strength and the internal infrastructure is fragile.
less formal
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Illness?
describes long and short-term diseases or ailments
more formal
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Practice?
- the act of rehearsing a behaviour over and over
- for the purpose of improving/mastering it
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Diagnosis?
- the process of determining which disease or condition explains a person’s symptoms and signs
- It is a summation of Evidence (History Taking and Physical Examination to elicit Symptoms and Signs, Investigation), Knowledge and Professional Experience.
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Differential Diagnosis?
- is the distinguishing of a particular disease or condition from others that present similar clinical features
for example many infections cause fever headaches and fatigue
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Medical Investigation?
- Tests and scans done to help with the diagnosis or management of adisease
may also refer to the general diagnostic process
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Prognosis?
- is the prediction of the course of adiseasefollowing its onset
- outlining its possible outcomes (e.g. death chance of recovery, recurrence) and the frequency at which these can be expected.
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Treatment?
- medical care given to a patient for an illness or injury
- it is the attempted remediation of a health problem, usually following a diagnosis
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Prevention?
the act of stopping something from happening
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Promotion?
an act that supports or encourages a cause, venture or aim.
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Follow-up?
- a further examination or observation of a patient in order to **monitor the success **of earlier treatment
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Management?
the art of getting things done through people. (Mary Parker Follet)
consists of 5 funcs, planning, organizing, commanding, coordinating and controlling
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Prehistoric Medicine?
any use ofmedicinefrom before theinventionofwritingand the documentedhistory of medicine
had connections to religious, philosophical beliefs of the local cultures.
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Traditional Medicine/Folk medicine?
termed alternative medicine
- these are prescientific forms of medicine
- sum of knowledge, skills, practises based on theories, beliefs and experiences of indegenous culture, whether explicable or not, used in the diagnosis, treatment, prevention of disease and promotion of health.
examples are acupuncture
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Quackery?
a from of alternative medicine
- outside the bounds of scientific medicine
- outside the bounds of safety
examples are, Chiropratic(rejects germ theory) believes disease is due to invisible subluxation of the bones predominantly of the spine.
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Science?
- is a systematic and logical approach
- organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about how the natural world works.
has 3 branches i.e natural sciences, social sciences and formal sciences
What is the modern clinical practise process?
- History Taking
- Physical Examination
- Differential Diagnosis
- Investigation
- Diagnosis
- Treatment
- Discharge/Death
- Follow-up
- Prevention of disease.
- Promotion of Health
