Principles of Medical Science [antikvár]

Preface There are now more than four millión persons employed in the delivery of health services. The physician and the pharmacist were the only health professionals until the first school of nursing was established in 1860. In the past century, laboratory and x-ray technicians, dietitians, sanitary engineers, public health educators, and many other qualified specialists have become necessary for optimum health care. Hospitals, once only for the poor, are now essential for effective diagnosis and treatment. New industries have developed to produce drugs, diagnostic and surgical instruments, and hospitál supplies and equipment. A rapidly developing and increasingly eomplex technology alsó required biomedieal physicists and engineers. This expansion of services has been so great that the health industry, taken as a whole, is one of the three or four largest in the United States. Recent and probable future legislation will undoubtedly increase the public commitment to health and create a demand for even more and better personnel. Medical scientists have made very little attempt to educate those in the ix