Medical...

Medical discipline is, I guess, doctors, medicines, and studies. Really anything that has to do with the health of people. Finding cures, developing surgeries, advancing the life span of humans. This would pay a rather large role in my business. My business is about a healthier, longer life. Staying in shape is important to keep a healthy heart and lungs. Medicine contributes by lengthening life, by and large. Medical interventions save peoples’ lives every day. There is also a great deal of preventative medicine – a doctor will sometime prescribe a diet or a certain medication in order to prevent strokes and heart disease. The right vitamins or foods often help with fats and cholesterol. In the same way, my fitness center is synonymous with “preventative medicine.” Daily exercise is a huge key in the prevention of illness.

The medical field affects economics because medicine, by many accounts, is a business. People develop drugs to help in weight loss or keep blood pressure down and they do it for the money. Marketing and selling prescription drugs is a big business.

Medicines have always been apart of history. Curing smallpox and the discovery of penicillin are memorable occurrences in our history.

Medicine and criminal justice are linked by the court system. Criminal action is sometimes taken against a pharmaceutical company or healthcare providers if an adverse outcome occurs. If a company is found negligent for something bad happening to anyone while using their services, then that company can be held accountable. In the same way, I could be accountable for any injuries that take place at my fitness center if it occurred due to my negligence, like failing to do equipment inspections or general lack of upkeep of my facility.

Medicine and language are linked very closely. For example, the epitome of the art of practicing medicine is the ability of the doctor to establish rapport with patients, take a complete history, which will lead to the diagnosis and treatment of the problem. It is impossible to attain a patient history or establish rapport with a patient without using language. Also, in medicine, not only language in general, but the choice of words is so important in explaining a medical condition or patient prognosis after making a diagnosis. Many malpractice lawsuits occur in this country simply because of a lack of communication. This lapse in communication either occurs within members of the medical community, or between a caregiver and a patient. It is important to recognize the power of language when dealing with people in a medical setting.

Psychology, whereas other students feel that it is a form of medicine, is actually not a medical field in the sense that psychiatry is. Psychiatry is the study of disorders of the mind and ways that pharmaceutical agents can be used to address these disorders. On the other hand, psychology is simply the study of the way the mind works. Why we do the things we do. What is the motivation behind our behavior, our development, even our thoughts? All of these facets of the human psyche are pondered in the field of psychology. Many times, a psychologist works closely with members of the medical community, often a psychiatrist. They may be able to add to the patient care by providing more information to the psychiatrist who is treating the patient. Also, counseling sessions are sometimes set up with psychologists in order to fully develop the patient’s diagnosis and treatment plan.