The problem of transition from curative to preventive medicine in the 21st century (A brief overview of the state of medicine at the present stage) | Biomedgrid

Even Confucius rightly believed that the causes are more important than the results, and this is directly related to human diseases. More than 150 years ago, the great Russian surgeon N.I.Pirogov predicted that the future belongs to preventive medicine. Interestingly, in what time we live in relation to N.Pirogov, if in 2016 at the AllRussian Youth Educational Forum it was proclaimed that prevention is the main principle of future medicine (again someday). But in 1937 the famous American expert and medical historian Henry Sigerist wrote that the era of a thousandyear predominance of medicinal medicine ends and the era of preventive medicine begins, the foundations of which appeared in the USSR. Even the famous scientist Claude Bernard believed that every doctor should know three things: the health conditions to support them, the conditions for the development of diseases to prevent them, and the conditions for recovery to use them. Unfortunately, there is no idea in our society that doctors should be engaged not only in treatment, but also in the causes of diseases and factors affecting them yet.