The Art and Science of Medical Guidelines:What We Know and What We Believe
Abstract
While physicians struggle to bring order and uniformity to the practice of medicine, the relative “chaos” of the human condition will always require that they rely in part on the art of medicine to fill in the gaps in medical knowledge.
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Article History
Received September 13, 2009; final version accepted September 18.Published online: Dec 14 2009
Published in print: Jan 2010