People are afraid of the unknown; UFO'S, Dracula, to name a few. That is why the movie Twilight was a box office hit and the Dracula has a thousand sequels and refilming.
In medicine, we face a lot of unknowns and to think that western medicine has been around for several decades at its present form. The patient that I have been mentioning for the last two days turned out to be a not well known disease. In fact, the hematologist was baffled by the diagnostic findings. To be exact, we don't know what it is; an unknown disease. If it is an unknown disease and we don't know what it is, we also don't know how to cure it. Yes, we can give symptomatic treatment like pain relievers and antipyretics. But to give a complete cure is unknown to us.
There are still a lot of illnesses that we don't know. To say that we are in the 21st century in health care, we are delusioning ourselves.
In medicine, we face a lot of unknowns and to think that western medicine has been around for several decades at its present form. The patient that I have been mentioning for the last two days turned out to be a not well known disease. In fact, the hematologist was baffled by the diagnostic findings. To be exact, we don't know what it is; an unknown disease. If it is an unknown disease and we don't know what it is, we also don't know how to cure it. Yes, we can give symptomatic treatment like pain relievers and antipyretics. But to give a complete cure is unknown to us.
There are still a lot of illnesses that we don't know. To say that we are in the 21st century in health care, we are delusioning ourselves.
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