[CITATION][C] Physician-scientists and scientific physicians: resolving the humanism-science dichotomy
GL Engel - The American journal of medicine, 1987 - Elsevier
I n Science the 1985 Nobelists in Physiology or Medicine are characterized as model
physician-scientists, shining examples of basically oriented clinical investigators... trained as
specialists... who continue to function as academic physicians,[and] in addition to their
research, to see patients, make ward rounds, and teach house staff and students. By
acquiring training in basic sciences they are able to work out the fundamental mechanisms
of disease...[and thereby achieve] a synthesis of medicine and the basic sciences [11. This …
physician-scientists, shining examples of basically oriented clinical investigators... trained as
specialists... who continue to function as academic physicians,[and] in addition to their
research, to see patients, make ward rounds, and teach house staff and students. By
acquiring training in basic sciences they are able to work out the fundamental mechanisms
of disease...[and thereby achieve] a synthesis of medicine and the basic sciences [11. This …