ArticleThe British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners1996
Medicine--a healing or a dying art?
Article in The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 1996. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
What it found
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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
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Who cites it
6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Medicine: science or art?Mens sana monographs · 2006Article
- Literature in our medical schools.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 1998Article
- Evidence-based medicine and general practice.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 1997Review
- You can't mishear what is written.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 1996Article
- "Is my practice evidence-based?".BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1996Article
- Experts and evidence.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 1996Article
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Abstract
That medicine is a science is the popular belief, and this has been reinforced by the advent of 'evidence-based medicine', which assumes that scientific proof is required to support medical practice. However, the view of science implied is a narrow one, foreign both to pure scientists and to artists, and the art of medicine is devalued by the approach. There are both important differences and important similarities between science and the arts. The arts should contribute to evidence-based practice and education along with science, and have a role in many aspects of medical practice.
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