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With a Few Words About Targeted vs Basic Research

Paul B. Beeson, MD

JAMA. 1977;237(20):2209-2212.

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IN THIS symposium I have decided to concentrate on the development of new information about human disease, with special emphasis on the contribution that can be made by clinicians.

My own career in academic medicine happens to have coincided with an era of extraordinary activity in biomedical research, in which change has been so rapid and continuous that even those of us who participated find difficulty in appreciating its extent. Here are just a few of the things I have witnessed: effective means for control of heart failure and hypertension, use of steroid hormones, renal dialysis and transplantation, ability to measure and correct fluid and electrolyte disturbances, development of techniques to make the diagnosis of fetal chromosomal abnormality, elimination of erythroblastosis, recognition of the role of lymphoid cells in immune phenomena, discovery of the functions of RNA and DNA (in fact, the whole field of molecular biology), curative treatments for . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Medicine, University of Washington, and the Veterans Administration Hospital, Seattle.

Footnotes
Read before the Clinical Colloquium marking the dedication of the Scripps Clinic Medical Institutions' new medical-scientific center, La Jolla, Calif, Nov 11, 1976.

Reprint requests to the Department of Medicine, Veterans Administration Hospital, 4435 Beacon Ave S, Seattle, WA 98108 (Dr Beeson).

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