What’s Inside?

The practice of medicine has been around for millennia. From the Sumerian dynasty to China to Egypt to India to Ancient Greece, societies have shared traditions and knowledge about managing disease and healing patients. Even today, modern medicine adheres to some ancient traditions, in particular the Hippocratic Oath, written in Greece between the fifth and third centuries BC.

Medical advances, however, require knowledge of the condition they address, and therein lie many challenges. Knowing how to classify diseases, find them in patients, pinpoint different sub-categories, and identify heterogeneity of symptoms has long proven a problem.

This blog covers:

• Interesting historical context
• How disease understanding is changing focus
• The evolution of our understanding of some example diseases
• The problems that clinicians face
• How we can support them
• How we can future proof as much as possible