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COVID-19 and the problem of clinical knowledge
1Department of Emergency Medicine, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, NY, USA. js1115@columbia.edu.
Abstract:
COVID-19 presents many challenges, both clinical and philosophical. In this paper we discuss a major lacuna that COVID-19 revealed in our philosophy and understanding of medicine. Whereas we have some understanding of how physician-scientists interrogate the world to learn more about medicine, we do not understand the epistemological costs and benefits of the various ways clinicians acquire new knowledge in their fields. We will also identify reasons this topic is important both when the world is facing a pandemic and when it is not.
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