Tag: Philip K. Wilson
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Weighing medical evidence on a historical scale
Philip WilsonPennsylvania, United States In 1992, a clinical discipline emerged under the name Evidence-based Medicine (EBM). Now well-known, EBM refers to the “conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients” (Sackett). Clinical expertise is combined with newly supported biomedical evidence obtained through systematic literature searches…
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Visualizing the human body through the ages
Philip WilsonHershey, Pennsylvania, United States From history’s earliest records, humans have expressed a keen interest in bodily structure and function. Cave wall paintings and terrestrial petroglyphs commonly include stick-figure or crudely outlined human forms. At all ages and in every culture, people have constructed similar figures as their initial depictions of the human body, suggesting…