Art is something that is very influential to medicine
because of the fact that art has helped us understand the human body. We have
always said that technology has advanced over the years, but also the same can
be said about medicine. This topic really caught my eye because of the fact
that I am an athlete and have constantly had x-rays, MRIs, etc. These things
have saved my career because if I wasn’t able to know what was wrong with my
body I could have injured myself more. This is something that keeps us safe
because we can’t just open the body up and close it when we need to look and
see if something is all right or not. Being able to see inside the body through
technology and also being able to see it through art and understand what is in
the human body is huge.
Plastic surgery has been looked at as justifiable to get in
our day and age, but do people know really where it came from. Plastic surgery
came about a while back before Christ and the word plastic doesn’t mean
artificial, but means molded. World War 1 was what made plastic surgery a big
deal because chemical bombings and stuff of that nature that doctors had to
deal with such serious injuries when it came to the face of soldiers and needed
to reconstruct it.
When it comes down to it, this weeks topics, has been
something that has helped my life out tremendously because I wouldn’t be able
to be an athlete if I didn’t know if I was healthy or not. Being able to see in
my body and have doctors that know exactly what is wrong with me when I am hurt
it instrumental for my athletic development. The Hippocratic Oath is “inadequate
to address the realities of a medical world that has witnessed huge scientific,
economic, political, and social changes, a world of legalized abortion,
physician-assisted suicide, and pestilences unheard of in Hippocrates’ time
(Tyson). I somewhat agree that the times have changed, but the Hippocratic Oath
is something that shows the necessities in medicine that are much needed.
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Justin,
ReplyDeleteI'm very intrigued by the plastic surgery you talked about. The insight about World War 1 really opened my eyes and now I realize that not every plastic surgery case is specifically to look better by choice. Some of these instances come from, like you mentioned above, unfortunate cases. Exception blog, Mr. Hazard.