Medical Hospital

A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment. Hospitals often, but not always, provide for inpatient care or longer-term patient stays.

Hospitals are usually funded by the public sector, by health organizations (for profit or nonprofit), health insurance companies, or charities, including direct charitable donations. Historically, hospitals were often founded and funded by religious orders or charitable individuals and leaders. Today, hospitals are largely staffed by professional physicians, surgeons, and nurses, whereas in the past, this work was usually performed by the founding religious orders or by volunteers. However, there are various Catholic religious orders, such as the Alexians and the Bon Secours Sisters, which still focus on hospital ministry today.

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Medical Revolution

  Medical revolution is a very significant change in the nature.
The medical revolution develop in 1980 by Dr.j.William Langston
 has been researching Parkinson's disease for 25 years.
At one time, it used likely he'd have to find another disease to study,
because a cure for Parkinson's looked imminent.

It possible for doctors to put healthy tissue in a damaged brain,
 reversing the destruction caused by the disease.
The medical technolgy invented in north America diffused to LCD in Africa,
Asia.Langston was one of many optimists.
In 1999, the then-head of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke,
 Dr. Gerald Fischbach, testified before the Senate that with "skill and luck,"
Parkinson's could be cured in five to 10 years.
 He no longer uses "the C word" and acknowledges he and others were naive.
 He understands the anger of patients who, he says, "are getting quite bitter" that they remain ill,
long past the time when they thought they would have been restored to health.
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The disappointments are so acute in part because the promises have been so big.
 Over the past two decades, we have been told that a new age of molecular medicine—using
gene therapy, stem cells, and the knowledge gleaned from unlocking the human genome—would bring us medical miracles.
 During the American Revolution, more soldiers died from illness than from combat. This was the reality of the state of the art of medicine and would be so right up to World War I. By WWI, it wasn’t so much that medical science had advanced to such a degree as to reverse this situation as it was that military science had advanced even further.

Clouds of gas could wipe out thousands in minutes, not to mention the machine guns and advances in explosive technologies. Humans were suddenly more capable of killing fellow humans than the scourges, plagues, and various bugs pursuing us, although the bugs were a very close second: it was WWI that introduced the world to the Spanish Flu killing an estimated 40 million around the world (the bulk of whom died after the war ended).

The Colonial physician was a pillar of his society. His status was nearly that of the local minister. He was a scholar and a gentleman. The best physicians of the time were often judged by their oratory eloquence rather than their successes as most of the time, an attending physician seemed to help the ill hurry toward their maker, especially if blood letting and mercury were involved.

In our first essay on the History of Medicine in America we touched on the Four Humor Theory of Medicine. At about this time, some competing theories were blossoming in both Europe and in the colonies. They too were ludicrous, by our standards today, and utterly without scientific merit. It seems that science, at this time, was considered an art. If a physician studied anatomy (some did not), that was considered science. Trial and error was looked down upon, while today our science is based upon trial and error. This is called empiricism: taking a theory to the laboratory and testing it. Empiricism was frowned upon by most physicians. One stuck to the rigors of his education and never questioned or tested. However, since there were no organizations or affiliations to enforce any particular form of medicine at the time, Colonial physicians were free to choose therapies from herbalism and what they called Indian Medicine, as well as from their formal or informal medical education.............

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