“Math in Medicine”
Contrary to popular belief, medicine and math coincide with each other in many different ways. Although the majority of people find math to be of no use towards their daily life, and see it as the bane of their studies, this shows that they are quick to judge a topic that they might not be very educated on the specifics of. Mathematics not only helps medical research specialists when trying to find equations to new chemicals, but these same discoveries help create pharmaceutical drugs that could lead to curing certain ailments and illnesses around the U.S., and even the world.
According to the Imperial College of London, “Medicine has become increasingly reliant on mathematics in recent years”, meaning that equations and …show more content…
Psychology can also be thrown into the mix by how the physician delivers news to a family on whether their loved one swill survive or not. With this cocktail of information, the doctor is able to form a way to pronounce the information to them. For example, instead of stating that an operation has a “43% chance of the patient not surviving”, this automatically puts the family and the patient themselves into a grim state of mind. But, what they do not hear is that the procedure has a 57% survival rate. Having that being said, these calculations and their delivery might not seem like much, but to the patients, it is a great relief. The patient’s wellbeing is of utmost importance to doctors and …show more content…
It can certainly be considered the root of many different subjects and jobs. It is honestly just all about how one uses it.
Returning back to the subject of mathematics in medicine, another important thing to consider is how it is not just a “one time thing” that is used. It is constantly being referred to in the medicinal world, as new situations and diseases arise. Doctors hardly have enough resting time as it is when attending to patients. Yet, there are some who also go out of their way to make many medicinal breakthroughs; and this has been going on for many years. Louis Pasture, for
example, and his study on bacteria growth rate in unpasteurized milk. Even the study of vaccines includes some mathematics in
Contrary to popular belief, medicine and math coincide with each other in many different ways. Although the majority of people find math to be of no use towards their daily life, and see it as the bane of their studies, this shows that they are quick to judge a topic that they might not be very educated on the specifics of. Mathematics not only helps medical research specialists when trying to find equations to new chemicals, but these same discoveries help create pharmaceutical drugs that could lead to curing certain ailments and illnesses around the U.S., and even the world.
According to the Imperial College of London, “Medicine has become increasingly reliant on mathematics in recent years”, meaning that equations and …show more content…
Psychology can also be thrown into the mix by how the physician delivers news to a family on whether their loved one swill survive or not. With this cocktail of information, the doctor is able to form a way to pronounce the information to them. For example, instead of stating that an operation has a “43% chance of the patient not surviving”, this automatically puts the family and the patient themselves into a grim state of mind. But, what they do not hear is that the procedure has a 57% survival rate. Having that being said, these calculations and their delivery might not seem like much, but to the patients, it is a great relief. The patient’s wellbeing is of utmost importance to doctors and …show more content…
It can certainly be considered the root of many different subjects and jobs. It is honestly just all about how one uses it.
Returning back to the subject of mathematics in medicine, another important thing to consider is how it is not just a “one time thing” that is used. It is constantly being referred to in the medicinal world, as new situations and diseases arise. Doctors hardly have enough resting time as it is when attending to patients. Yet, there are some who also go out of their way to make many medicinal breakthroughs; and this has been going on for many years. Louis Pasture, for
example, and his study on bacteria growth rate in unpasteurized milk. Even the study of vaccines includes some mathematics in