Entry #9: Evolution and Medicine

I believe that medicine does need an evolutionary perspective. Modern medicine does not have to fully revolve around evolution, but adding it into the medicine field for doctors to better help people may be a good way to give people better treatment. How medicine could somehow have an evolutionary perspective is by doctors learning more about it. I know not many people are for evolution but it does help to explain many things in the science field. I think that if doctors did learn how the body evolved, it could help them in their practices. Just like a mechanic fixing a car, he needs to know everything about that part in order to fix it properly. If you know nothing about what you are trying to fix then you will fail. You need to learn background information first and then work your way up. Learning about the simpler facts and then moving up into the harder information is a good way to start off. If doctors learned about the basic body parts and worked their way inward into the harder organs and bones and how they evolved, it may help them to work with their patients better. Suppose a doctor is prescribing a type of medication, there are many different aspects they need to look at such as allergic reactions and side effects. If they somehow incorporate how the body first started off maybe they can be more careful in diagnosing and prescribing medications. So, I do believe that knowing how the body evolved would be a great benefit to doctors. Knowing more about the body may lessen the time it takes them to diagnose a patient.