Medical Research from Realism to Abstractism: “Everything we Call Real is Made of Things we cannot Call Real” (Niels Bohr, 1885-1962)

Faaiz Alhamdani*

Medical Research from Realism to Abstractism: “Everything we Call Real is Made of Things we cannot Call Real” (Niels Bohr, 1885-1962).

Realist painters were more concerned about real life events, directing their attention toward marginalised people. Realism reflects a philosophical rather than artistic style. It wanted to show the true nature of reality no matter beautiful or ugly, dark or bright. It must reflect what is out there not what we want to see.

Realism in this aspect has its similarities to medical research. Researchers in medical field strive to deal with their research findings in objective way and deal with individuals in health and disease with no presumptions. This is why randomised selection from the population to study a given health phenomenon is essential for the objectiveness of the research.

Medical researchers are aware of the complexity of biological system, imperfections of statistically dependent methodologies and expected procedural errors. This supports the argument toward the fact that mathematics is unable to explain certain phenomena in economics, psychology and biology. Despite this fact, medical researchers still rely in the vast majority of their findings on quantitative studies. Only statistical analysis is their proof of reality of a given phenomenon.

Understanding this fact might help clinicians to approach disease management in more effective way. It improves patient-clinician communication. In addition, there is important interaction between the outcome of a disease and the way patient understands or deal with.12 On this basis qualitative research started to gain popularity in the last decade in medical field with valuable input in medical knowledge.

Public Health Open J. 2017; 2(2): 42- 45. doi: 10.17140/PHOJ-2-119

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