Intended for healthcare professionals

Rapid response to:

Fillers Endpiece

What is a medicine?

BMJ 2000; 320 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.320.7226.24/b (Published 01 January 2000) Cite this as: BMJ 2000;320:24

Rapid Response:

Medicine is More than mere knowledge

Sir,

For a practising clinician and his/her patients,

Medicine is:

A Chemical + Information + Faith

It is not only knowledge as a chemist may tend to perceive.

Competing interests: No competing interests

02 January 2000
K R Sethuraman
Professor of Medicine, JIPMER, Pondicherry, India
JIPMER, Pondicherry, India.