What are interesting facts about medical sciences?

Answer 1

The most important aspect of medicine is the fact that it is a STATISTICAL science. By that I mean it is quite difficult to predict how a specific patient will do in terms of prognosis or response to a particular therapy. However when a series of patients are studied we can predict how groups of them will do.

For example let us examine the case of survival in premature infants. At 24-weeks gestation (normal: 40-weeks) the survival is 50%. Let's suppose that you have a premature baby @ 24-weeks gestation. Will the baby live or die? We can't say. What we CAN say that if we had 100 24-week gestation babies admitted to the NICU today then approximately 50 of them will survive. 50 will not. What group is your baby in? We can't say. We do know, however that if your 24-week gestation baby survives the first two weeks of life without significant complications his survival increases to 85%. This means that if you now had a group of 100 babies who were born @ 24-weeks gestation and are now two weeks old and without significant complications 85 will survive. This now creates two groups; 15 who die and 85 who survive. What will happen to your baby? We can't say for sure.

Medicine uses data derived from large groups of patients to devise treatment modalities for individual patients.

Answer 2

In 1940 Dr. S.S. Bryukhonenko at the Institute of Experimental Physiology and Therapy, Voronezh, U.S.S.R conducted research where he experimented with dogs and proved that dogs head can leave without its body for three days. Special artificial conditions were created to power the head with arterial and venous pumps. Dog's isolated head reacted to all basic external stimulants: light, sound, pain and taste. This disturbing Russian experiment helped scientist around the world to create artificial organs that are used by many medical institutes. More recently Dr. Robert White of Ohio claims that he transplanted a monkey's head onto another monkey's body.

Answer 3

Medical sciences explain how our body works in health and disease. They also teach how to prevent treat and cure diseases. Lastly they help in believing in miracles and God.