The role of medical research in developing countries

As a medical student, I am in direct contact with the past, present and future of science. Sometimes, for instance, I read books concerning the history of medicine that bring me back to how diseases were diagnosed and treated a hundred years ago. Bloodlettings, leeches, herbs, and venoms.

It’s amazing to see how medical science has progressed since then. It’s only been a hundred years. We have gone from the discovery …

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