Medicine; What is Medicine?

       * 'Medicine' is the name of the book. When italicized, I am referring to the book.

          

        

        Medicine. What is medicine? By definition, medicine is the science or practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. Whether it be you going on your yearly physical at the doctor’s office, or receiving life-saving treatment; medicine is everywhere, spanning from the basis of life itself in which you can only see in microscopes, to the procedures, methods, and practice of saving a human (or non-human) life. To know medicine is to be conscious of the cells at work day by day sustaining all our actions and decisions; to be aware how world economies and nation’s choices can affect death rates in certain regions or climates; to apprehend the murderous nature of disease and it’s outright only reason of living (if living) to eradicate all of those experiencing existence itself. But to truly know medicine, you’re not supposed to uniquely look at all the bad things we were taught to detest and slaughter, but to look at the rest they forget to teach and start to matter. Bacteria are what make up our gut biomes that control our digestion and aid our immune system; nations across the globe assembled arm-to-arm to eradicate smallpox more or less than 50 years ago with the aid of the World Health Organization. Nevertheless, medicine isn’t just about science. Medicine is about how people act, think, and do; medicine is about theories, hypotheses, and laws; medicine is about the methods and ways people are able to gather together to stop epidemics, pandemics, heck, all the ‘-emics’. And not only to be able to sustain the practice of old ideals and rules, but to break them and create new ones through enactment and application. Medicine was formed off an idea long ago, when people started to care for others instead of just themselves. And that idea has curated and molded itself through tens of centuries, now to the presentation in the world that we look at and live in today. This book, Medicine, by Adam Rodman, does not only cultivate and explore these topics in a simple, yet decorative manner, but throughout its countless chapters it feeds new perspectives to the meaning of medicine itself and its flawless demonstration. 

Medicine offers a perspective on medicine outside of our largely western-style shifted views of the United States healthcare system, and instead puts a spotlight on the world. Medicine is written by Adam Rodman, a medical educator from the United Kingdom. Due to this fact, much of the medicine described in the book is described based on European and other Eurasian perspectives. This diversity of methodology expanding outside of the United States system we all grew up with offers unique views into the role of medicine outside of a western frame of reference. Additionally, views on healthcare outside of how we know them here can bring up worthwhile comparisons of different international systems that go to show in what parts of medical management we are either failing, or exceeding in; in turn showing to us what we need to work on as a nation, and as the supposed global role model in healthcare.

Medicine simplifies unevenly complicated topics in a way any reader is able to understand. Whether you’re looking for a fun read, or a book to help you in your early medical studies, Medicine is the right choice. Its large selection of important topics in the medical field come with clarity and understanding. Although its chapters are heavily simplified, each of their points gets across one way or another. I would name Medicine as a great book to start venturing into the world of understanding medicine, and in a way setting up a baseline for future studies. Medicine contains great representations and meanings of its topics through fascinating graphics. Moreover, it's able to force comprehension to the subject at hand through intricate yet straightforward illustrations. For example, when dealing with points on specific processes, these illustrations tend to showcase distinctive sketches of the process in entirety; expressing each part of the operation step by step, not overdoing their wording or their drawings. Nonetheless, on less tricky topics, the illustrations tend to lose variety as well, as if to match the levels of complication on each subject. Finally, these illustrations aid in the process of memorization of the material displayed through matching course work with a distinguishing graphic. 

Although the topics highlighted in Medicine are to an extent simplified, their essence of complexity remains. For example, if talking about COVID-19, although they present the materials in strips of simplicity, the idea remains complex. Because of the book’s ability to make complicated topics more fathomable, through understanding the information itself, you are able to unlock the level of complexity it’d normally sit at. In a way, because you understand it, you are able to reiterate and rehearse the information given to you at a higher level of convolution. In this sense, Medicine doesn’t only present its material to you in a way you can understand it, but in a way that you can explain it to others in the same, or even a more preferable and fitter method.

        Medicine represents not only the magnificent science and structure medicine has, but its art, beauty, and complexity it nurtures; ironically, in a less complex way. Medicine’s simplistic style and design carries several points entangled in hundreds of different points of views, and brings it to a narrowed multi-perspective that covers the summarized lot of material with little to no bias. From its graphics to its leveled tone in its writing, the subjects it conveys can be reiterated and re-shared through the voice of a reader in a diluted yet powerful resonance. And, whether you are dedicated to the field of medicine, or are just looking for an interesting non-fiction book to read, Medicine fits many types of readers’ desires and ‘zones’. In all briefness, Medicine is able to allocate so many of medicine’s striking aspects and wonders within a concentration of one hundred fifty five pages that will completely shift and recreate your understanding of medicine in its whole package.

        Thank you for reading my section for Paleta Payaso's blog, and if I were to give this book a rating as if it was a Paleta Payaso; this popsicle would have a near-perfect smile.

                                                                                     

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