Medicine
From Pharmpedia
See drugs, medication, and pharmacology for substances that are used to treat patients. This article is about medical practice.
Medicine is a branch of health science concerned with maintaining health and restoring it by treating disease. Medicine is both an area of knowledge (a science), and the application of that knowledge (by the medical profession and other health professionals such as nurses). The various specialized branches of the science of medicine correspond to equally specialized medical professions dealing with particular organs or diseases. The science of medicine is the knowledge of body systems and diseases, while the profession of medicine refers to the social structure of the group of people formally trained to apply that knowledge to treat disease.
Retrieved from "http://www.pharmpedia.com/Medicine"
This page has been accessed 391 times. This page was last modified 02:15, 30 May 2005. All content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.
