Prognostication: A fading Hippocratic art?

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2024-07-04 DOI:10.1016/j.explore.2024.103026

Thomas John Papadimos

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Abstract

Over the past 75 years modern medicine has advanced in its ability to diagnose and treat many diseases. However, the medical profession's ability to prognosticate the course and outcome of an illness has not satisfied the needs of many patients. Physicians must not lose the ability, or desire, to consider the whole person in relation to a patient's disease. We need to ask ourselves what person has the disease, not what disease the person has. Here I endeavor to demonstrate why Hippocrates valued prognostication highly, how its importance may have faded from the consciousness of current medical practice, and how modern technology is attempting to reinvent or revise it.

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预言：逐渐消失的希波克拉底艺术？

在过去的 75 年里，现代医学在诊断和治疗许多疾病方面取得了进步。然而，医学界预测疾病进程和结果的能力并没有满足许多病人的需求。医生绝不能丧失考虑病人疾病的全人因素的能力或愿望。我们需要问自己，是什么人得了这种病，而不是这个人得了什么病。在此，我试图说明希波克拉底为何高度重视预后，它的重要性是如何从当前医疗实践的意识中消失的，以及现代技术是如何试图重塑或修正它的。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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