title: [Crisis of medicine and information].
abstract: Western medicine is experiencing a period of crisis, which started in the middle of the twentieth century. Such crisis comes from three different directions: the lack of confidence in the capacity of physicians to solve medical problems; the difficulties in health system management, due to the need to find an equilibrium between costs and benefits; the physicians increasing specialization. Correct information and divulgation, together with evidence based medicine, represent possible ways to ameliorate this situation.
authors.affiliation: Agenzia Zadig di Giornalismo Scientifico, Milano.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dri
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003142:Communication; D003363:Cost Control; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006801:Humans; D008511:Medicine; D013038:Specialization