Medical practice requires scientific knowledge, technical skill and human understanding

• Many years of study, a long interval of training and a lifetime of dedicated service are required in order to become a good physician.
• It is therefore essential that a premedical student have an overview of the nature of the medical profession.
• This can be accomplished in a number of different ways, including
  1. Reading about the activities of medical students, physicians-in-training and those in practice
  2. Talking with medical students and doctors
  3. Performing volunteer work in a hospital
     
• The practice of medicine is a combination of both science and art.
• The scientific component involves the application of technological modalities in solving clinical problems.
• This requires the judicious use of
  1. Biochemical methods
  2. Biophysical imaging techniques
  3. Therapeutic modalities—areas that have seen remarkable advances over the past decade.
• Competence in utilizing these areas, while essential, does not meet all the requirements of a good practitioner.
• The ability to extract vital information from a mass of contradictory signs and computer-generated data in order to arrive at a tentative diagnosis and determine an appropriate course of action is also needed.
• This involves deciding whether to actively pursue a clinical clue or merely to continue observing as well as judging, if treating the condition involves a greater risk than not treating it at all.
• This combination of knowledge, judgment, and intuition is the key to the art of medicine.
• Medical practice requires scientific knowledge, technical skill and human understanding
• The last quality involves treating the patient with tact and sympathy and realizing that a patient is a human being, not merely a collection of symptoms, damaged organs, and/or disturbed emotions.
• The physician must recognize that the patient is, at the same time, fearful and hopeful and in need of relief, assistance, and reassurance.
• To meet this challenge, the physician must genuinely care for people.

Read More on     http://careers.stateuniversity.com/pages/100000671/Medical-Practice.html