Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to W V Fink.
The trial to find connections between the frequency of cases in general medicine and life expectancy of the population succeeded, concerning superficial pyogenic infections by meta-analysing cases-statistics 1944-1996. More could be found by special, prospective, well-planned, comparable statistics of long duration, although it is unlikely that such expensive and difficult investigations will ever be made.
Clinical specialists are not yet exploring the vast field of medicine applied by them. As a consequence, clinical medicine is in need of suitable names for many results of consultations. The concept "diagnosis" has become insignificant in specialists' medicine. Only specific basic research can alter this disturbed balance between clinical science and practice.
One aim of applied medicine is to uncover, as early as possible, avoidably dangerous courses of diseases. All attempts to install obligatory investigations for the early detection of certain malignancies in general practice have failed for various reasons. The success rate for detecting life-threatening diseases in general practice could be rather high, if all the new tools, developed by basic specific research, were applied.