Medicine: Art or Science
It is often said and acknowledged that physicians are trained in the Sciences to practice the art of healing. This underlines the importance of social and practical skills in medicine. In all fairness, Doctors are taught interpersonal skills in addition to the growing knowledge in the biomedical Sciences. Procedural skills which are acquired later on in the medical training are more of an art--due to the motor component of and personalized touch to it--though there is a scientific basis, to all of them, which is founded on the Sciences learnt in the earlier phase. Without doubt, in the absence of scientific knowledge, medical judgement would be hollow, action to take conjectural and prediction of outcomes speculative; eventual complications would be misconstrued and mismanaged. Most medical treatment is medication-based and there is lot of Science involved in drug discovery, manufacture, action, use and complications ther...