Does a doctor or a nurse practitioner need to understand the mechanisms of disease in order...
Does a doctor or a nurse practitioner need to understand the mechanisms of disease in order to come up with a sound medical treatment for his or her patient? By mechanisms of disease, I mean the morphological, molecular, and genetic changes associated with that disease.
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Healthcare professionals are the one who diagnose and treat a patient for their illness.After the diagnosis the nature of the disease has to be known and treated accordingly. Having a knowledge about it's morphology,mechanism, genetic changes can help to identify the symptoms at the earliest and provide preventive care and thereby preventing complications. A recent outbreak of Corona virus is a challenge to the healthcare professionals to find the right medication because of its genetic mutation each time when it affects an individual. So knowing the basic information is very important to doctor and nurse practitioner need to understand the mechanism of disease.
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