Commentary Commentaire question—that prevalence question—pertaining to the correct
diagnostic probability in the context of the profile at hand. And as for the theoretical …

Orientational measures of a diagnostic's informativeness naturally are the maximum and
minimum of the possibly resultant diagnostic post-test probabilities, while complete …

Since the discovery of x-rays by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen 100 years ago, diagnostic
imaging has profoundly influenced the practice of medicine. As a result of discoveries during …

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

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 …

Over the past 40 years, the advent of computed tomography, diagnostic ultrasound,
magnetic resonance imaging, positron emission tomography, advanced vascular imaging …

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

R ADIOLOGY is a highly successful medical specialty that has advanced from being a
scientific curiosity to an integral part of health care. This advancement, due in large part to …

If the prospective graduate, to be authorized to practise medicine, actually aims to conduct
practice-relevant research (without authorization), notably directly practicerelevant, gnosis …