title: Medicine at the beginning of the 21st century: a personal viewpoint--a peripatetic overview.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Byrne
mesh_terms: D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005544:Forecasting; D017048:Health Care Costs / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D007255:Information Services / Q000639:trends; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D013812:Therapeutics / Q000639:trends*