[Radiation medicine and its significance to scientific and practical internist's activity].
The author of the article analyzes the significance of radiation medicine in the system of medical sciences, and stresses that radiation medicine and other fields of medicine have a lot of common points in their interests and the ways of development. All these points concern patients and problems of the evaluation of their health status in connection with diverse forms of radiation contacts. The author discusses the reliability of the sources of information and the forms of data presentation in the main publications addressed to certain groups of medical practitioners, researchers, and healthcare managers. The most significant results of radiation medicine, which may be useful to clinical medicine in general, are summarized in the article. The author annotates and assesses the targeting of manuals of radiobiology and radiation medicine issued in the resent years.
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D000328:Adult; D047852:Chernobyl Nuclear Accident; D005194:Family Practice; D006801:Humans; D007388:Internal Medicine; D007953:Leukemia, Radiation-Induced / Q000209:etiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009381:Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced / Q000209:etiology; D011832:Radiation Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D011835:Radiation Protection; D011847:Radioactive Fallout; D018788:Radioactive Hazard Release; D011853:Radiobiology; D011870:Radiologic Health; D012106:Research; D012307:Risk Factors
D011847:Radioactive Fallout