PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Haber, Edgar
TI  - Basic science and clinical medicine
DP  - 1985 Sep 21
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 361--367
VI  - 52
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/52/3/361.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/52/3/361.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med1985 Sep 21; 52
AB  - The author discusses the relationship between clinical medicine and basic research, and suggests that an effort should be made to encourage close communication between practitioners in both disciplines. The author’s experience in the Cardiac Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital is discussed as a specific example of a program that has evolved into an amalgam of clinicians and scientists, producing many examples of cross-fertilization between basic research and clinical application. The practice of both disciplines together, and not in separate laboratories or distant departments, stimulates pertinent questions and clinical responses, and minimizes the delay between discovery and application.