ABSTRACT

Today the field of medicine includes health protection, disease prevention, and health promotion as approaches that can improve and strengthen the health of individuals and communities. Medicine incorporates art and science, theory and practice, knowledge, attitudes, and skills, finding and using the most rational way the best evidence, critical thinking, argumentation, and decision-making in our practice of medicine, and execution of sensory and motor skills In medicine, the path from the first diagnostic impression to the final diagnosis follows very similar steps and logic. In modern science, a scientific theory is a tested and expanded hypothesis that explains many experiments and fits ideas together in a framework. The scientific method is used to describe a body of techniques for investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, or correcting and integrating previous knowledge. Historically, the science of medicine has focused on rigorous observation, measurement, and interpretation.