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The best guide to understanding the world of medicine

An era where even a stopped heart can be made to beat again and the head can be opened for surgery.
Modern medicine is amazing and wonderful.
But just a hundred years ago, people didn't even know that germs existed, and doctors performed surgeries without washing their hands.
So how did humanity gather wisdom and reach its current achievements?

Written by practicing physicians and recommended by other physicians, "Great Medicine" covers nearly every aspect of medicine, from the relatable questions about the body to the struggles of doctors to save patients, the advancement of medical technology, and the development of various diseases and new drugs.
By blending medical knowledge with experience and insight from the medical field, he leads readers into the vast and fascinating world of medicine.

The universal structures necessary for survival are the same, but the Creator's 'play' is exerted to the extent that it does not affect survival.
A physician must deeply understand the universal structure of the human body and adapt to the Creator's playful diversity.
This is the fun and profoundness of medicine.
---p.5

Those close to a patient are often shocked when they witness symptoms of a significant change in consciousness, such as delirium.
It's natural to feel anxious when someone you care about says something out of the blue or becomes aggressive.
In times like these, knowledge can be a strength.
Because sufficient knowledge reduces anxiety.
---p.37

We drink water every day and gulp down salty ramen broth.
Even this seemingly everyday occurrence is thanks to our body's amazing ability to regulate itself.
The salt concentration in our blood is about 0.9 percent, which is similar to that of regular soybean paste soup.
If you add more water to the soybean paste soup, it will become bland, and if you add more soybean paste, it will become salty.
The concentration changes easily.
But our bodies are different.
---p.123

It was the first time in human history that home game consoles were becoming popular.
Of course, this type of trauma had never been recorded in the history of medicine before.
The American doctor who wrote the paper suggested naming this new injury 'Nintendinitis'.
'-tis' is a suffix meaning '-salt', and it is preceded by the name of the game console Nintendo.
In short, it is 'Nintendo-itis'.
---p.134

What's most interesting is that this valuable substance was already present in our bodies long before humans began using steroids.
The process by which humans, the lords of all creation, use their wisdom to invent all kinds of medicines may seem like creating something out of nothing.
However, if you look closely, most of them are nothing more than rediscoveries of substances that already existed in nature, including the human body.
---p.180

Humanity has been waging war against each other for a long time, constantly inflicting wounds on each other.
In the days before antibiotics, serious wounds in war often resulted in immediate infection and death.
So, on the battlefield, amputation of limbs was often performed to prevent the spread of infection.
It was a time when, terribly, there was no anesthesia technology.
---p.241

What image comes to mind when people hear the word "surgery" these days? Probably a single, clean, dust-free operation in a clean operating room.
I can't help but think of medical staff wearing gowns, masks, hats, and gloves.
It is also natural to use sterilized surgical instruments.
Joe.
You would imagine it looking clean in some way.
But this concept of 'cleanliness' is very modern.
Because until at least the 18th century, doctors operated with their bare hands, without masks or hats, using the same instruments they used on one patient and the same instruments on the next.
At that time, European surgeons performed operations wearing black suit coats that reached just above the knees, and because they were not washed, blood would constantly stain their clothes and harden as if coated.
---p.264

Today we take for granted the existence of local anesthesia.
By injecting only a small amount of medication, a person can undergo surgery without feeling any pain for a certain period of time.
Treatments such as tooth extraction and surgery to remove tumors by cutting the skin with a scalpel are all performed painlessly.
Behind the scenes of cocaine, which can be called a miracle drug, there was a surgeon's life-threatening struggle.
---p.285

Today's surgeons are realizing just how technology-friendly surgery is.
Not only giants like Koher and Halstead, who pioneered surgical horizons, but even Jem, who laid the foundation for laparoscopic surgery, could not have imagined a future like today.
We have the privilege of having a front-row seat to a moment when surgery is experiencing its fastest growth in history.
---p.335

The discipline that has developed greatly over the past half century or so is ‘dynamics.’
It is an academic discipline that analyzes various health-related situations for adults, identifies the factors that influence them, and helps establish social countermeasures.
---p.356

Medicine is a discipline that was originally designed to enrich life.
We cannot assume that 'abundance' is the same as 'extension of life'.
If medicine is about entering a fight where defeat is certain, called death, then isn't "a wonderful defeat" also part of medicine's role?
---p.393

The advancement of learning is like a tower built by the accumulation of small steps.
All the people listed here have made achievements worthy of their names.
However, their achievements were never achieved solely through their own efforts.
With the support of many others and the evaluation of later generations, it has made its mark in history.
It left a mark.
Even if a genius emerges once every 100 years, he or she can only demonstrate genius based on the knowledge available in the era in which he or she was born.

---p.417