Focusing on Fundamentals

Focusing on Fundamentals  

Authored by Amballur David John

In a time of rapid knowledge expansion, technological innovation, emphasis on cost containment and improving efficiency in delivering medical care, it is easy to overlook the fundamentals of medicine. The sudden onset of new diseases, such as the Ebola virus which can cause rapid spread, panic, multisystem failure, and death or the Zika virus which is spread by an abundant common factor the mosquito, and which can cause catastrophic developmental anomalies to pregnant women resulting in children who will bear the consequences of these defects for a life time; emphasizes the importance of acquiring and spreading information, quickly.

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