Commentary Commentaire matic, inclusive of their patient-relevant in-vivo manifestations (in
reduced discomfort, deformity and/or dysfunctionality); and that welcome changes in quality …

Medicine was a “productive art”(Aristotle), and now it is an aggregate of such arts. It thus is
supposed to have products, and indeed it does. Hippocrates' empirico-rational medicine …

Commentary Commentaire cent advent of medical science. For one, the availability of
knowledge from medical science provides, increasingly, a superior substitute for that from …

It is a great honor for somebody from the old world to congratulate you on the magnificent
achievements of the last 200 years and to extend every good wish for the next several …

442 JAMC• 21 AOÛT 2001; 165 (4) guished from 'liberal arts,'the latter 'fit for a
gentleman.'Today, among the presumably practical medical sciences we tend to distinguish …

• The goal of science is truth through knowledge. But medicine's truth is not altogether the
same as science's truth.• Science works with ideas, imagination and intuition, but essentially …

At the time of Sir William Osler, the task at hand was to remind practitioners and public alike
that medicine had a scientific basis at all. How the pendulum has swung. The years of the …

Oneofthecharacteristicsofthepost-1991National is likely to arouse excessive and
unrealizable expectations: that the new scientism is, to an extent, Health Service is the new …

Let me present you an example from my own discipline, diabetology. The military surgeon
John Rollo is usually being praised as the father of modern diabetes care. In 1798, he …

The modern scientific physician faces challenges in conceptualizing the desired, useful
properties of diagnostics and interventions, especially as to what measures of the respective …