To medicate is according to the Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy "Administer or Prescribe Medicines". Medicine is the science that is responsible for taking care of the health of living beings, the most developed medicine is the one used to treat and take care of human conditions, an animal patient can also be medicated through mechanisms provided by veterinary medicine. Starting from the simplest concept of medicine, we can determine that medicating a patient is not only about giving him some pill or medicine that alleviates his symptom and improves his condition, but also that the treating doctor is aware, supervising the evolution of the patient to through visits or consultationsor permanent observation in a hospitalization area.
In the process of medicating a patient, not only the specialized doctor intervenes, the nurses who give the minimum care to the patient also participate in the process, which includes the administration of the treatment by the indicated route (oral, intravenous, among others) Specialists and machine operators also act to carry out graphic and immersive studies, graduated in biochemistry and bioanalysis, which provide the results and details of the medical examinations performed on the patient through blood chemistry and other fluids extracted from the body.
Medication usually includes a series of instructions that you must follow to ensure that the medications and treatment work well in the body. Medicating a patient may require that intimate and clinical details of the patient be known in order to determine what the causes and counterproductive medications that affect the body may be.
We cannot fail to mention a negative phenomenon in society, self-medication, it is when people without going to the doctor take medications and undergo treatments under the supervision of a qualified doctor who guides them in the correct application of medicine. Self-medication causes millions of deaths worldwide, basically due to the placement of unknown drugs in the body, of which the patient has no idea of the effects they may produce.
