Medicine

“ . . . medicine is an art not because it is watered-down or incomplete science; rather, the challenge facing physicians is very different from that which faces laboratory scientists, and constantly draws upon a unique combination of perceptual talents. And, like architecture, medicine is formed in the junction of technical expertise and human values, a domain in which decisions must meet physical as well as human standards. Even in current times, then, physicians necessarily engage in the medical arts – as understood in their positive connotations, that is” (Pressman, 315).