Purported Essence of Clinical Research

Abstract

Had medical academia successfully defined scientific medicine, then, presumably, the clinical segment of this academia would have made a concerted effort to arrive at a consensus about the essence of the clinical research. But as it is, no such effort has been made, and the essence of clinical research remains a matter of very diverse opinions even among authors of textbooks on the subject; and the primacy of the research to advance the knowledge-base of clinical practice remains largely unrecognized. Remarkably, this seems not to bother the authors nor anyone else in clinical academia. A tenable conception of the essence of clinical research and of the most important genre of this is not only obviously important but also attainable.