As a physician who attended a scientific high school, trained originally as a chemist in college, and who later became entranced with Chinese medicine, studying the ongoing cultural struggle between “evidence-based medicine” (the validity of which is built on a statistical-mathematical, deductive-digital-linear model) and an inductive logic experience-based medicine, is compelling. What follows is an attempt to describe these models and delineate them in terms of their underlying structure, perspective, and application.
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