1993
DOI: 10.1016/0140-6736(93)90294-q
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Medicine as a stochastic art

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“…It was the Greek philosophers who first recognized the variability of an individual patient's response to therapy. They considered medicine to be an art with peculiar properties, and called it a stochastic art [15]. They knew that a physician might treat according to the best guidelines of the day, yet the patient would die.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It was the Greek philosophers who first recognized the variability of an individual patient's response to therapy. They considered medicine to be an art with peculiar properties, and called it a stochastic art [15]. They knew that a physician might treat according to the best guidelines of the day, yet the patient would die.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Moreover, from an epistemological point of view, many consider medicine to be a science, while others classify it to stochastic arts [31]. In either case, medicine has an inherent normative component, namely the treatment of patients [32].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Ces discussions ne sont nullement récentes, c'est la querelle entre Alexandre d'Aphrodisias et Galien [2], entre les universaux et les nominalistes comme disait Claude Bernard. Ce qui est récent, c'est l'apparition en médecine des études contrôlées randomisées qui permettent de mesurer plus correctement les conséquences des traitements.…”
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