The History of Medicine Can Inform the Future
The history of medicine is the study and documentation of medical treatments, practices, and knowledge over time. These resources are interesting on their own, but they also can help create the necessary perspective to shape our understanding for the future of medicine. Relevant historical documents remind us that medicine always is evolving and responding to new science, technology, research, understanding, and applications.
Pursuing medicine without the history of medicine raises the risk of blinding us to things we ought to know and are best not relearned the hard way.
Source: The History of Medicine Can Inform the Future. Sarah Spivack LaRosa. CedarsSinai. October 21, 2022
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