title: [Contemporary clinical medicine--assurances and uncertainties].
abstract: Selected topics in the contemporary clinical medicine are reflected. The main fields of interest and characteristic features unifying theory and praxis are outlined; specificities of clinical thinking and decision making, and conception of clinical medicine as a scientific discipline are presented. Author deals with assurances, various forms of irresolution in clinical medicine and with problems resulting from the scientific progress.
authors.affiliation: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, 1. lékarská fakulta, III. interní klinika VFN. pacovska3@seznam.cz
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Pacovský
mesh_terms: D015510:Clinical Medicine; D003657:Decision Making; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans