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• [P1225] Progress Away From Evidence based Medicine to Discovery of Dynamic Principles of Disease and its Treatment
  Author(s): Cathy M. Helgason M.D., Thomas H. Jobe
  
  

  Abstract
  Background: Medical science demands that measurement of any object requires that object to be isolated from other objects, from its context, from the method of measurement and the observer. Linear and static relations amongst variables are thus defined and predictions formulated based on probabilities. Information is statistical. These criteria are met through the large double blind randomized clinical trial. Method and Result: It was hypothesized that information of a non statistical nature could be sought in the individual patient. Fuzzy logic and the geometry of fuzzy theory were considered as viable methods for the discovery of information regarding the process of disease and treatment in medicine. The result is that variables of interest are allowed to intermingle with others, their context, and the dynamic of these interactions is measured in such a way that the measurer and the measured coexist in each instant. Conclusion: Isolation as a principle of scientific measurement need not be a requirement for attainment of medical knowledge.

  
   

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