Vivian S Rambihar, Vanessa S Rambihar
Complexity: the science for medicine and the human story
Lancet, 2010, 375, 1162

Vivian S Rambihar, Vanessa S RambiharAthar Yawar (Feb 13, p 546) [1] affirms that medicine is better served by science than art, albeit with a new, human science that is less objective, certain, and isolationist. Such a discipline describes the new post-normal science of chaos and complexity, which Stephen Hawking says he thinks will be the science for the 21st century. [2] Science keeps changing, as does medicine - the science of humanity. Hippocratic medicine replaced divine intervention and the supernatural with the science of natural observations, guiding medicine to the 18th century. [3] A post-Hippocratic medicine emerged with influences from classical science of structure and predictability, probabilistic and reductionist modern science, and then post-modern science of deconstruction. [2]