ABSTRACT
The aim of every medical worker – general practitioner, consultant clinician, radiologist, surgeon, psychiatrist, research biochemist, pharmacologist, physiologist – is to provide through knowledge, experience and technical skill the best possible medical care for each individual patient. Such is the commitment of the Hippocratic oath, and for many of the day-to-day problems of clinical practice and medical research the achievement of such an aim has fortunately been reduced to effective routines; in such problems the statistician has no significant role to play.
