CLINICAL MEDICINE.

Evidence Based Medicine: Clinical Trials

Evidence based medicine is very important for success of modern medicine. It is the ongoing process of using the most reliable evidence from clinical studies, scientific understanding and medical practice to make the best possible medical choice for patients. Evidence based medicine is how medicine advances and how we get improvements in life expectancy and quality of life. It not only identifi...

Clinical Medicine

Clinical Medicine

Clinical Medicine and Clinical Trials

INTRODUCTION Dr. Eli Glatstein has been an important mentor and friend during my 30 years in clinical radiation oncology. He has made countless contributions to our field, and those contributions are being celebrated as part of this special issue of The Oncologist. I am indebted to him for his guidance and help in the development of my career generally. I am particularly grateful to Eli for hel...

Clinical holistic medicine: applied consciousness-based medicine.

Consciousness-based medicine is our term for a form of medical treatment that works by direct appeal to the consciousness of the patient, in contrast to modern biomedical treatment where drugs are used to affect body chemistry. With this concept, maybe we are (in a sense) turning back to the "old medicine", where the family physician was the all-concerned "old country doctor" who knew the child...