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The Rod of asclepius

医学（いがく）は、生体の構造や生理機能についての探求や、疾病の性状、原因について調査し、その診断、治療、 検査、予防等についての研究診療を行う学問である。 (→医学)

History

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  A statue of Asclepius.
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  The hieroglyphic for brain from The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus (17th century B.C.)
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  Physician treating a patient. Red-figure Attic aryballos, ca. 480–470 BC.
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  Trepanation, as described by Hans von Gersdorff in Feldbuch der Wundartzney (1517)
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  Image from Andreas Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica (1543), page 164.
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  Image from 11th century AH (17th century AD) Persian manuscript by Mansur ibn Muhammad Ahmad at the Majles Library, Tehran.
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  Drug Ampoules
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  old medicine
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  The earliest illustration of tuberous sclerosis, displayed in Rayer's 1835: "Traité des maladies de la peau".

Primary care

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  Primary care physician
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  Pediatrics
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  Nursing

Emergency / Urgent care

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  Paramedics attending to a man after a fall from a bridge
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  An ambulance from the Philadelphia Fire Department
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  Interior of an Ambulance.

Hospitals

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  Reagan medical center in Los Angeles
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  Nurse at the bedside of a young boy in an Intensive Care Unit, IBN Sina Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq (April 2004).
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  Hospital room

Specialties

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  Anesthesiology (c. 1922)
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  Cardiology
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  Dermatology
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  Dentistry
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  Endocrinology
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  Geriatrics
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  Hematology
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  Infertility
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  Neonatology/Perinatology
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  Nephrology
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  Neurology
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  Obstetrics/Gynecology
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  Opthalmology
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  Oncology
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  Pathology
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  Pediatrics
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  Psychiatry
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  Plastic surgery
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  Urology
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  Surgery
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  Surgery
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  Virology
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  microbiology
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  penicillin
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  imbalance
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  pandemics
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  bacteria

Pharmacy

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  Opioid pills
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  Monopoly of big pharma companies
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  pills
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  pills
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  pills
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  anti-malaria pills
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  vaccine
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  Depo-Estradiol (estradiol cypionate) vials

Diagnostic imaging / Radiology

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  Electrocardiogram (ECG/EKG)
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  Mammography
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  Endoscopy
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  X-Ray
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  Typical PET imaging facility
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  Magnetic resonance imaging(MRI)
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  Computed tomography (CT)
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  Positron emission tomography(PET)
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  Ultrasound

Other

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  safety