Year: 2006
Type: article
Abstract: In 1950 a patient with diabetes couldn’t test his or her own blood sugar or have it tested by the doctor; a pregnant woman couldn’t get an ultrasound picture of her fetus and we didn’t know what DNA looked like; the polio and measles vaccines didn’t exist and neither did Medicare or Medicaid. Today these are such common aspects of routine medical practice that it’s hard to imagine not knowing about the double helix or the perpetual problems of Medicare and Medicaid.
Source: The AMA Journal of Ethic
Author: Abraham P. Schwab
Institution: American Medical Association
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W108233340