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CASE FILES: BIOCHEMISTRY

BIOCHEMISTRY PEARLS

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There are six key questions to stimulate the application of basic sci-

ence information to the clinical arena.

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Medicine consists of both art and science.

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The scientific aspect of medicine seeks to gather data in an objective

manner, understand physiologic and pathologic processes in light

of scientific information, and propose rational explanations.

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The skilled clinician must be able to translate back and forth between

the basic sciences and the clinical sciences.

REFERENCE

Braunwald E, Fauci AS, Kasper KL, et al., eds. Harrison’s Principles of Internal

Medicine, 15th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001.