Abstract

Horton1 writes about the transition from the age of experience to an age of experiment. All branches of medicine have no doubt benefited from increasing methodological sophistication, and, in some ways, we all “stand on the shoulders of giants” from the past. However, it would be a mistake to presume that the process is homogeneously linear and applicable to all the subspecialties in medicine. The knowledge base in different branches of medicine has not developed at the same rate across the board.

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