From: The preface of the famous "Western Internal Medicine" says that medicine is an art, not a pure science.

The author is (USA) LeeGoldman.

Medicine involves various fields such as body, physiology, psychology, society, law and ethics. From a surgical perspective, the scalpel is carved like a rejuvenating hand. The scalpel seems as cold as ice, but it melts many hearts like snow-capped mountains. Let the withered branches bloom into the green buds of spring. Caressing the injured plasma. Carefully for those desperate moans.

Carving the wheel of life. The scalpel is light yet heavy. It's so easy in the doctor's hands. From an internal medicine perspective, a diseased body is like a withered flower. Under the careful care of doctors, he is thriving again.

It is like repairing and tidying up flowers. Redraw the blueprint of life. There is no doubt that medicine is not only a science but also an art. Today's medical environment requires doctors to serve patients artistically.

When performing an appendix surgery, I’m afraid you have to consider whether it’s convenient for the patient to wear navel-baring clothing after recovery. The development of cosmetic medicine further illustrates the artistic characteristics of medicine.

Facts have proved that from ancient times to the present, both inside and outside the Great Wall. Many famous domestic and foreign medical scientists must first have good writing skills. Otherwise, his medical knowledge will be buried in the coffin and lost in the long river of history.

For example, look at the Huangdi Neijing from the perspective of prose. Every word is precious. It has a unique charm. And easy to remember. Coincidentally, many famous domestic and foreign writers have experience studying or practicing medicine or have good medical knowledge.

Extended information:

Clinical medicine is both a science and an art. It has the duality of science and art. There seem to be at least two important differences between the two categories of learning, science and art.

First, whether the conclusion is unique. In a pure science, if the answer to a question is correct, it should be the only one. There are standard answers to exams in mathematics, physics and chemistry. It is impossible for different answers to be correct. This is not the case in art. There is a difference between painting, photography, literature and drama of the same scene. There is no right or wrong distinction.

Second, it is the dependence of the learning process on practice. Science studies are mainly conducted in colleges and laboratories, while arts studies are also taught in classrooms. You learn some basic principles and normative knowledge, and success depends on practice. You can’t become a painter just by learning perspective and spatial theory in class. Being a painter requires repeated practice.

Looking at clinical medicine from the two important characteristics of science and art, it seems that medicine is more of an art. Judging from the uniqueness of the conclusion, doctors can prescribe different prescriptions for the same disease state, and the treatment of patients can be classified as superior or inferior, but it is difficult to say that there is right or wrong. From the perspective of the dependence of learning on practice, medical students who study anatomy and disease treatises cannot yet be said to be doctors. Becoming a good doctor depends on repeated practice.

Medicine is more of an art, and medical treatment relies largely on experience. What is the experience? Experience is the primary perceptual knowledge accumulated after people come into contact with practice. They are valuable, but sometimes unreliable. Doctors have developed the habit of looking at problems emotionally over a long period of practice.

This works, but sometimes things go wrong. Experience needs to be sublimated, and sensibility needs to be elevated to rationality in order to have higher reliability. Being able to consciously and frequently elevate experience to rationality is a high requirement for doctors, but it is also the basis for a doctor's ultimate success.

For doctors to realize the transformation from general experience to regular understanding, from perceptual problems to often rational induction, it requires conditions. One is personal quality. The individual must be savvy and good at learning; Given the environment, that is, the so-called atmosphere and culture, people tend to follow the crowd. Everyone is like this, and it is easy for him to follow this path.