Importance of health and medicine has enhanced the life expectancy of human beings. For last hundred years' medicinal processes and medical equipment are proved to be the boon to human health for diagnosing properly and for applying proper medicines to the patient.
The medicine word is derived from the Latin word ' ars medicina', meaning 'the art of healing'. Egyptian had advanced medicine systems at their time. Egyptians and Babylonians introduced the method of diagnosis and medical examination. Greece added further advancement in medical surgery system. Thus the history of medicine is a bigger subject. However I want to clear one thing that real advancement in medical science started from the midst of 20th century. In this period of time computerized instruments dragged the medical diagnosis at the peak level for simplified case study of diseases . The energy thrown in research of medical science is proving that human effort has adopted medicine subject as one of the most important subject for ensuring our health free from diseases.
Research is always driven by business opportunities. So we can say that many business groups somehow noticed and found the depth and width of marketability and expending capacities of human beings for securing their health. Thus ultimately the large market in health sector opened the opportunities for business. Thus it became a win win business model for customers as well as sellers.
Medicine has opened a reliable methods of curing and protecting human lives. It showed the various ways of diagnosing the diseases of human beings. X-ray technology in the midst of twentieth century provided new technique of diagnosis. It ignited the human mind to do more research to find other sophisticated technology for adding value in medical science. Due to consistent effort of doctors and scientists now we have latest medical equipment like ECG machine, EEG, City Scan machine, High quality medicine packaging machines, Computerised blood testing machine, digital diabetic testing machine, digital blood pressure testing machine and many more.
But the most usable equipment in today's time is smart mobile. I am telling one small event. One day I went to a doctor for my son's health problem. I talked with doctor about lasts medicine used and diagnosis undergone. I only could tell the name of the medicine. Then doctor told me do you know the composition of that medicine, because there are many brand names for one type of composition. Then I told no doctor I couldn't. Then suddenly an idea came in my mind. I opened my mobile and googled for the medicine and found the composition. Doctor appraised me and told really you have shown that smart phone is doing wonder for all of us. Then doctor recommended a medicine. I googled and got all pros and cones of that medicine instantly in front of the doctor and told that isn't it give any side effect. Doctor replied my all queries and advised me correctly.
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