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Science AdvocacyA Role for the Family Practitioner
Jerod M. Loeb, PhD
Arch Fam Med. 1993;2(3):247-249.
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SCIENCE IS the foundation of medicine. Through regular advances in basic and applied biological research, physicians' ability to prevent, diagnose, and treat disease continues to grow at an unprecedented rate. At no other time in the past century has medicine been presented with so many successful developments in biomedical research that have revolutionized patient care. Cystic fibrosis, Parkinson's disease, childhood diseases, adenosine deaminase deficiency, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, melanoma, Gaucher's disease, spinal cord injury, coronary heart disease, diabetes, colon cancer, muscular dystrophy, and bums are just a few of the many areas in which new curative, preventive, or therapeutic modalities have been developed in the past few years. Each of these advances has resulted from the combined efforts of basic scientists, clinical investigators, and practicing physicians willing to become involved in clinical trials, and each of these advances has evolved in a climate in which public support for science has, for
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Author Affiliations
Assistant Vice President for Science and Technology American Medical Association Chicago, Ill
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