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L.S.K.

JAMA. 1970;211(7):1178.

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There are many ways to keep the physician up to date. Surveys and reviews abound and take many different forms, from abstracts of individual articles to digests of everything relevant to a given topic. These presentations, in turn, show marked variation. In some the "digestion" is minimal and the survey often little more than a string of brief summaries with little synthesis. On the other hand, in the better reviews the author thoroughly digests the material and presents his interpretations.

Interpretations are subjective, and "subjectivity" is a bad word in contemporary science. The medical profession has fallen victim to a mass illusion, that science must be objective and that the deliberate intrusion of a personal viewpoint is somehow unscientific. However, any good survey of a topic must filter through the mind of the reviewer and will necessarily be moulded by his scheme of values. This scheme appears in the particular . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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