Nurses play a significant role in the day-to-day monitoring of patients' health. ... In health facilities and doctors' offices, nurses are responsible for recording patient vitals and keeping track of health issues and medications. They can also assist doctors in minor surgical procedures and tests conducted in the office.

Doctors are one important agent through which that scientific understanding is expressed. But medicine is more than the sum of our knowledge about disease. Medicine concerns the experiences, feelings, and interpretations of human beings in often extraordinary moments of fear, anxiety, and doubt.

Dentists are often the first health care professionals to recognize and identify a wide variety of diseases, ranging from hypertension to oral cancer. They diagnose and treat problems affecting the teeth, gingival tissue, tongue, lips and jaws.