ABSTRACT
Medicine is a series of decisions made based on a combination of theory and practice derived from experience and/or evidence. Scientific method, structured and focused logic, and critical thinking lead understanding of health problems and what to do with them. Medical thinking is a better known, and understood, cognitive process. Medical thinking, as the intellectual process of medicine, contains several interfacing and completing components. Invaluable work from many different branches within medicine, including epidemiology, biostatistics, and a broad range of experience and methodological developments in medical and surgical specialties have been vital in the development of critical thinking in medicine. Both fundamental and clinical epidemiologies and their uses remain at the core of the current state of evidence-based medicine. Like epidemiology, biostatistics, and evidence-based medicine, developments of several major subjects in the humanities, arts, and sciences have expanded into the health sciences and professions.
