Abstract：
:Francis Bacon, who with Rene Decartes laid the intellectual foundations for Western science in the seventeenth century, asserted that the purpose of all knowledge is "action in the production of works for ... the relief of man's estate." We assess briefly several aspects of a few of the current efforts directed to the production of such "works" with respect to such "relief" as they may provide: cancer mortality, the medical literature, evidence-based medicine, clinical trials, observational databases and criteria for the promotion and tenure of the medical faculty. We suggest why each of these efforts appears to have failed to some degree and then propose some measures that may possibly serve as correctives.
journal_name
Med Physjournal_title
Medical physicsauthors
Herbert Ddoi
10.1118/1.1555493subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2003-04-01 00:00:00pages
489-94issue
4eissn
0094-2405issn
2473-4209journal_volume
30pub_type
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