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Essay / Medical Advances in the United States - 712
“Wherever there is a love of the art of medicine, there is also a love of humanity,” said Hippocrates. This love is manifested through the efforts of those who work and have worked for so long to improve the medical field to improve the United States. Over the past hundred years, the health of the nation and the condition of our hospitals in the United States have become a major concern. As the health of the American population declines, the need for an advanced medical field increases. The medical field is already very advanced and has progressed a lot over the last hundred years. Improving surgeries, vaccines, treatments and everyday medications is at the heart of the medical industry. Looking at the United States, we see that medical advancements have certainly changed the country for the better. Improvements in surgeries, such as less invasive surgeries, offering more ways to reduce pain, and surgeries with fewer side effects, have dramatically changed the way Americans respond to the idea of surgery. The idea of less invasive surgery arose in America shortly after improvements in France, "a cascade of events was set in motion that impacted the performance of surgery in the 21st century." Concepts of “surgery through a telescope” date from the late 19th century, but late 20th century technology made laparoscopic surgery and minimally invasive surgery not an isolated event but a reality” ( Mack, Minimally Invasive). This is a major improvement that makes the surgery more attractive to Americans. This same article talks about the problems of invasive surgery: "Pain, discomfort, and disability, or other morbidity resulting from surgery, are more frequently due to the trauma involved in accessing the area.... .. middle of paper ...... due to the need to combat infectious diseases. As vaccine development advances into the 21st century, it is important to build on the experience and knowledge generated in the past, with the aim of overcoming the limitations that currently hinder the development of new and more vaccine technologies. effective. Advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. "We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research," says Ike Skelton. As the amount of medical supplies and medical treatments increases, the way our nation's hospitals handle everyday events such as arm broken or things that devastate lives like cancer diagnoses Advances in history have significantly changed the way the United States responds to major events and everyday events in the lives of its citizens...