Medicine - November 2007

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2007-11-29 13:49:03 · 2 answers · asked by gabriela 1

I am so sad today. I feel, like with the great competitive nature of today's medical schools, I have no chance of getting in. All my dreams of becoming a doctor is disintergrating in front of my eyes. There seems to be no hope.

2007-11-29 13:39:34 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

The oldest Babylonian texts on medicine date back to the First Babylonian Dynasty in the first half of the 2nd millenium BC. The most extensive Babylonian medical text, however, is the Diagnostic Handbook written by the physician Esagil-kin-apli of Borsippa,[9] during the reign of the Babylonian king Adad-apla-iddina (1069-1046 BC).[10]

Along with contemporary ancient Egyptian medicine, the Babylonians introduced the concepts of diagnosis, prognosis, physical examination, and prescriptions. In addition, the Diagnostic Handbook introduced the methods of therapy and aetiology and the use of empiricism, logic and rationality in diagnosis, prognosis and therapy. The text contains a list of medical symptoms and often detailed empirical observations along with logical rules used in combining observed symptoms on the body of a patient with its diagnosis and prognosis.[11]

The symptoms and diseases of a patient were treated through therapeutic means such as bandages, creams and pills. If a patient could not be cured physically, the Babylonian physicians often relied on exorcism to cleanse the patient from any curses. Esagil-kin-apli's Diagnostic Handbook was based on a logical set of axioms and assumptions, including the modern view that through the examination and inspection of the symptoms of a patient, it is possible to determine the patient's disease, its aetiology and future development, and the chances of the patient's recovery.[9]

Esagil-kin-apli discovered a variety of illnesses and diseases and described their symptoms in his Diagnostic Handbook. These include the symptoms for many varieties of epilepsy and related ailments along with their diagnosis and prognosis.[12]

2007-11-29 13:21:39 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

i am donating blood tomorrow at a school blood drive.
anything i should know?

2007-11-29 13:06:13 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-29 13:02:08 · 5 answers · asked by Samuel Park 2

My eleven-year old daughter really wants to become a doctor, but does not know where to start. Do you have any experience with books that start kids getting interesting the human body/brain especially? Please send in any information you have!

2007-11-29 12:39:01 · 5 answers · asked by Tesline T 2

2007-11-29 12:24:31 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

We have a bottle of liquid laxative that expired a while ago....would it be harmful to someone's health if they took it? I'm just curious..would anything bad happen?

2007-11-29 11:04:46 · 1 answers · asked by Haley 2

basically, i want to do work experience in a hospital, but i dont know what one to do. the royal free is closest to me, do they do it?

2007-11-29 09:18:56 · 1 answers · asked by eatmy_goal 2

2007-11-29 07:01:18 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Can this drug keflex be used to take care of upper respitory tract infections? What else it used for ?

2007-11-29 03:46:41 · 3 answers · asked by SPACEGUY 7

im debating with a guy on u tube about animal testing im trying to research does animal testing really need to be done and im trying to find the alternative methods

2007-11-29 03:07:23 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-29 03:00:54 · 2 answers · asked by bonita19 2

why? stem cells help people why wont the support stem cell research

2007-11-29 01:36:34 · 7 answers · asked by dear maria 1

Compute how much IV fluid you would document on an I&O form as being absrobed from a 1000 ml bag if the following amounts are left in the bag.
They are
275 ml
550ml

2007-11-29 01:32:10 · 3 answers · asked by whisper2ya 2

as i am sitting at my desk at the mo and since taking them i feel very drowsy, dizzy and sick, is this normal and will it affect my work?

2007-11-28 21:13:35 · 2 answers · asked by Kelly S 1

like zanex or oxycontin

2007-11-28 16:41:09 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-28 15:04:35 · 7 answers · asked by 123456 2

2007-11-28 14:37:29 · 3 answers · asked by kittan_luva 1

2007-11-28 13:32:57 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

When happens to scarred tissue as a person ages (60yrs and on)? If someone had a gridwork pattern of keloid scarification covering their whole body, would their body be more youthful, non-saggy, and more taught than a normal person. Would the scarred person have any advantages, or will the scars themselves just become paper thin as well?

2007-11-28 11:23:33 · 1 answers · asked by cpc26ca 1

I know there are 4 different types of blood (A, B, AB, and O; excluding - and + blood types). Is there any advantages of having a certain blood type over another? Would I be more suceptable to a disease if I had AB over the A- blood type I have (this is an example; however I do have A- blood)

2007-11-28 11:21:08 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

i am a high school student who wants to go into the medical field, but i don't know which health profession to pick. Since i want something where you actually deal with blood, think, interact with your patients, and is interesting. In other words i do not want to seat on a chair and just prescribe medicines to my patients. Plus i also want a career where you just don't work with one sickness, but with many. I know that will probally mean physician, but i want to be able to also see the body system of the patient. Whether it is blood, organs,etc.

2007-11-28 11:08:46 · 7 answers · asked by jossy 3

What are the three ways that a docto can examine an organ?

Also, what organ absorbs all of the nutrients out of food and completes the process of food digestion.

2007-11-28 10:20:55 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

i just need any info about mint

2007-11-28 10:00:22 · 3 answers · asked by brandon 1

Being a non-medical professional myself, I am attempting to explain this technology to a fellow layperson. Thanks if you can help! :)

2007-11-28 09:52:48 · 1 answers · asked by excruciatingly 1

which pharmacological steps would be undertaken to minimise the risk to the foetus when taking antiepileptic drugs?

2007-11-28 09:38:26 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

as Huntington's disease) and why?

2007-11-28 09:27:51 · 3 answers · asked by funnylittlefrog 2

I ALREADY KNOW it's poisonous to drink and can kill you or make you blind.

I ALREADY KNOW that there are other commercial antiseptics that are safe and inexpensive.

But for the purposes of my question, they're NOT available, okay?

(In fact, trained medical personnel, please do not answer. Your training compels you to give only a standard answer, which will not only be unhelpful but irritating. I'm not going to go so far as to report such answers as abuse, but I am asking you, please, to assume that I know more about the conditions relating to the question than you do.)

Is methanol too dangerous to be used as an antiseptic on wounds AT ALL, or could it be used in an emergency IF all other supplies were depleted?

Persons giving serious well-thought out answers will receive recognition, especially if you can provide references or brief case histories.

Persons giving a wiki reference as an answer will be rightfully ignored.

2007-11-28 08:52:29 · 4 answers · asked by cdf-rom 7

2007-11-28 05:31:07 · 5 answers · asked by Greg 1