A Research Study On Preventive Medicine - 978 Words

I can still remember those words, ‘When you are a clinician, you are saving a life, but when you are a public health personnel, you are saving thousands of lives at a time’, delivered by my professor in the orientation class of undergraduate Community Medicine course. That introductory speech was so motivating that I contemplated for a while, should I be in the ‘thousands life saver’ group? Though inspiring, that speech alone was not sufficient to grow my interest in public health. Day by day I felt the importance of public health while dealing with various patients as a clinician. During my Intern period in the Dhaka Medical College Hospital, I managed a diverse type of patients and realized that to delve into the depths of the medicine, there is no alternative of knowing the epidemiological basis of diseases. In order to improve the individual and the community health status, preventive medicine should be focused primarily. 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