A preventive medicine specialist is a doctor who detects not the disease itself, but the prerequisites for it or signs of the disease at the earliest stage. The task of such a professional is to defeat the disease even before the onset of the first symptoms. He also deals with patient diagnostics with high-tech equipment and preventive health counseling.
How did this profession come about?
At the beginning of the XXI century, mankind realized the benefits of a healthy lifestyle, which is influenced by our well-being, healthy diet, physical activity, the absence of bad habits and unnecessary stress. Thanks to technological progress, people have more time and opportunities to devote time to their health.
But the mistake is that we think: "Since I go in for sports, I do not smoke, and nothing hurts, then I am healthy." In fact, the first stages of disease are unnoticeable and can develop in the human body for many years - it looks like a time bomb. Therefore, those who are committed to active longevity and the absence of serious chronic diseases during their life will need a specialist in preventive medicine. In fact, this is a new stage in the development of medical practice. We are used to thinking that medicine is always the treatment of an already existing disease. And preventive medicine is a set of measures to preserve health, which is carried out with the help of regular diagnostics and monitoring of the body.
Let's take a closer look at what a preventive medicine professional can do.
What does a preventive medicine specialist do?
Antiage Counseling
Antiage is a whole system of measures that a therapist can offer to an individual or a whole family. As a rule, this is a private family doctor who keeps the medical records and medical history of the patient and his relatives for many years, often from a young age. This approach allows you to most effectively identify and predict diseases.
Antiage consultants order complex and detailed analyzes for their patients, conduct genetic tests, check the level of vitamins in the body and a lot of other indicators. Their main task is to reveal the disease in a latent form. They can also provide advice on diet and exercise. In essence, this is your “health coach” who takes into account every little detail and nuance, including the psychological state of the patient.
Telemedicine
You know that a doctor in a polyclinic or even your family doctor cannot always provide an in-person consultation. But if you urgently need to consult a specialist or undergo a regular examination, then one of the modern medical specialties is remote diagnostics, or telemedicine, when the doctor can do a lot for the patient via video communication. By the way, in extreme situations, doctors can even remotely perform surgical operations - for example, supervising the actions of a fellow climber who is in trouble.
Also, a preventive medicine specialist can arrange regular consultations for his wards, and this can be done in special video applications with powerful functionality.
Hi-tech and diagnostic gadgets
A preventive medicine specialist can be not just a consultant, but also a high-class diagnostician and IT developer. In addition to complex stationary devices, more and more mobile gadgets are being developed that perform the function of continuous diagnostics. For example, in the US, there is a project called Verily, which has created a technology by which smart watches and bracelets collect and analyze data on human health and can reveal the user's propensity for dangerous diseases. The same company has also developed contact lenses that can measure blood sugar levels.
Medical systems and big data
And where can the data be sent from such diagnostic gadgets? In special medical digital systems, which are also being developed by IT doctors. Such applications will become publicly available - the attending family doctors, narrow-profile specialists, genetic consultants, and nutritionists will be able to access the database on the patient's health from the cradle to old age. Physicians will even be able to host online consultations on these medical systems! They will come together via video, like in Zoom, and display all the necessary information about the patient on the screen. Including data from complex studies such as MRI or even 3D models of individual parts of the body and organs. Most importantly, the main purpose of such systems is to prevent most diseases by identifying their cause, and not to treat symptoms.
