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2550 BCE
early medicine
The ancient Mesopotamians had no distinction between "rational science" and magic. When a person became ill, doctors would prescribe both magical formulas to be recited as well as medicinal treatments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_medicine -
1370 BCE
The Egyptian medicine
The cause of disease was usually understood as the consequence of sin and, when that seemed not the case, that the patient was under a demonic attack, was being plagued by an angry ghost, or that some god felt they needed to learn a lesson. Disease, therefore, was commonly treated through recitation by a doctor of magical spells. https://www.ancient.eu/Egyptian_Medicine/ -
350 BCE
Galen's theory
In 350 B.C. Aristotle believed that everything — all matter — was made from earth, air, fire, or water. In his view, and in the view of the Greek physician Galen, who practiced five hundred years after Aristotle, these four elements explained illness and disease. If the body seemed to have too much or too little of any element, the physician had to restore the patient's balance by blood letting. http://www.ushistory.org/brandywine/special/art06.htm -
The First Stethoscope
The stethoscope was invented in France in 1816 by René Laennec at the Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital in Paris. -
Medicine during the 1800's
The number of medicines available to regular physicians of the period was just starting to grow. There were probably fewer than 100 medicines used; a firm number is hard to pin down since the first American pharmacopoeia was not published until 1820. http://www.mnwelldir.org/docs/history/history03.htm -
The First African American doctor
James McCune Smith was an American physician, apothecary, abolitionist, and author. He is the first African American to hold a medical degree and graduated at the top in his class at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He was the first African American to run a pharmacy in the United States. http://chaamp.virginia.edu/node/4028 -
The First Sphygmomanometer
The sphygmomanometer was invented by Samuel Siegfried Karl Ritter von Basch in 1881. Scipione Riva-Rocci introduced a more easily used version in 1896. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphygmomanometer -
the first ever percocet
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration first approved Percocet in 1976, under application ANDA 085106. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxycodone/paracetamol -
The Big Case of Pneumonia
In the late 1970s, a rare form of cancer called Kaposi's sarcoma and an unusual type of pneumonia called Pneumocystis carinii began to appear in previously healthy homosexual and bisexual men in the United States. https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/culture-magazines/1980s-medicine-and-health-topics-news -
The advancements
The first decade of the 21st Century brought a number of discoveries, mistakes, and medical advances that have influenced medicine from the patient's bedside to the medicine cabinet. https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/publichealth/17594 -
The Requirements
the requirement to be a doctor you would have to have a Doctoral or Professional degree -
The skills you need
According to a Mayo Clinic study, patients have different ideas of skills that make a good doctor. They include confidence, empathy, being humane, respectfulness and thoroughness. While it's important that the doctor understands how to treat his or her patient, patients also want a doctor who couples this medical knowledge with the aforementioned personality traits. https://study.com/articles/What_Skills_are_Needed_to_be_a_Doctor.html -
The salary
Doctors’ earnings ranged from about $156,000 a year for pediatricians to about $315,000 for radiologists and orthopedic surgeons. The highest earners — orthopedic surgeons and radiologists — were the same as last year, followed by cardiologists who earned $314,000 and anesthesiologists who made $309,000. http://time.com/4408807/surgeon-salary-how-much-doctors-make/ -
the courses you have to take to become a physician
that students take classes such as English, math, biochemistry, biology, ethics, diversity and language. https://classroom.synonym.com/classes-do-need-become-doctor-6103257.html -
the salary of a doctor in 2018
In the US, the average annual salary for an ER doctor is more than $281,000
https://healthcaresalariesguide.com/er-doctor-salary/
