DOI: 10.12890/2014_000100
Editorial: European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine
Authors
jgkellett@eircom.net
Abstract
Modern medicine began in the last half of the nineteenth century when doctors started practising the scientific method at the bedside. However, in his presidential address to the Association of American Physicians in 1979 James Wyngaarden postulated that the clinical scientist was an endangered species. Several reasons for this have been suggested, including “the seductive incomes that now derive from procedure-based specialty medicine”. Others have suggested that it is simply because the things left to be discovered at bedside have become exhausted, and that all the big medical advances will now be made by high-powered institutions.
References
- Wyngaarden, J.B. The clinical investigator as an endangered species. N Engl J Med 1979; 301: 1254–1259
- Kellett, J. Case reports — EJIM's new policy. Eur J Intern Med 2008; 19: 389
Published
2014-02-03
Issue
How to Cite
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Kellett J. Editorial: European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine. EJCRIM [Internet]. 2014 Feb. 3 [cited 2026 Nov. 3];1(1). Available from: https://ejcrim.com/index.php/ejcrim/article/view/100
