Clinically, it means "visiting the sickbed in person". According to the clinical manifestations of patients, the etiology, pathogenesis and pathological process of the disease are studied as a whole, and then the diagnosis is determined. Through prevention and treatment, the disease can be reduced to the maximum extent, the pain of patients can be alleviated, the health of patients can be restored, and the labor force can be protected. Clinical medicine is a science that directly faces and treats diseases and patients.
/kloc-During the Renaissance in the 6th century, medical stereotypes were broken and human anatomy came into being. 17th century, the establishment of physiology. 18th century, the establishment of pathological anatomy. /kloc-great progress has been made in cytology and bacteriology in the 0/9th century. Basic medicine and clinical medicine have gradually become two independent disciplines, and the great progress in mathematics, biology, physics and chemistry has laid a solid foundation for the emergence of modern clinical medicine.
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The main classification of clinical medicine:
Clinical medicine belongs to the first-class medical discipline (category code 10) with discipline code 1002, which is divided into 18, namely:
Internal medicine (10020 1), pediatrics (100202), geriatrics (100203), neurology (100204), psychosis and mental health (/kloc-)
Clinical medicine needs to diagnose and treat patients on the basis of knowledge obtained from basic medicine, and the relationship between them is similar to that between basic science and applied science. But it should also be noted that there are quite important differences between basic medicine and clinical medicine. Both basic medicine and clinical medicine have the mission of understanding the life activities of human body (mainly healthy people, including patients) and discovering its laws, and clinical medicine is the only way to discover diseases, which provides rich research materials for medical development.
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