Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Information

  • Eliot’s triad: Information, knowledge, and wisdom in medicine

    Anthony PapagiannisThessaloniki, Greece Where is the Wisdom we have lost in Knowledge?Where is the Knowledge we have lost in Information? I first saw these well-known lines by T. S. Eliot1 inscribed as a motto on the flyleaf of a Greek textbook on internal medicine. I was a student then, and almost a quarter of a…