The evolution of Medicine was long and a reflector of improvements in human reasoning and objectivity. From the reflex and intuitive efforts of a cave-man to conserve life in the face of injury and disease to Hippocrates the father of modern medicine will today in the era of great technologies such rapid advances have occurred and especially in the last two to three decades that it is difficult to keep pace with all of them.

An array of drugs to deal with infections and other diseases, research in mental health problems, pill endoscopy in gastroenterology, organ transplants with increasing number of organs on the list.

Diagnostic services such as Computerized Axial Tomography Scan (CAT Scan) has itself made great strides with new technologies like 64-slice CT scan, FLAIR, Diffusion scanning and much more coming up rapidly. Similarly Ultrasound and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) technologies. DNA analysis and genetic testing has given new dimensions and new horizons for research and treatment to medicine.

Ongoing research and development includes artificial blood, artificial skin, have traveled from laboratory to market shelf and an array of artificial organs are in the pipeline of research. Most recent hot and controversial topic of today is stem cell research with many proponents and opponents, this field has a wide range and unexplored dimensions.

The main responsibility of the medical professionals of today is to keep abreast of all this knowledge and technology and practice medicine on the basis of evidence. For those in research it is imperative that they strike a balance between the science and art of human body and should not loose the sight of forest in search of a tree.