La Medicina Ciencia y Arte, siempre junto al enfermo, también al final de la vida

Abstract

Medicine is Science because the medical act must be supported in proven knowledge, but it is also Art, because the patient is a psychophysical unit in which his mental structure receives what comes from the environment, elaborates it and responds, according to his own personality. That is why assistance and medical care must be personalized according to each patient. This Science-and-Art Medicine is still necessary when, in the end, we face death. The concepts of Therapeutic Rejection, Adaptation of therapeutic effort, Therapeutic obstination, Palliative Care, and Euthanasia.