But the more I read The Youngest Science that year, the more I returned to a fundamental question: Is medicine a science? If, by science, we are referring to the spectacular technological innovations of the past decades, then without doubt medicine qualifies. But technological innovations do not define a science; they merely prove that medicine is scientific—i.e., therapeutic interventions are based on the rational precepts of pathophysiology

But the more I read The Youngest Science that year, the more I returned to a fundamental question: Is
medicine a science? If, by science, we are referring to the spectacular technological innovations of the past
decades, then without doubt medicine qualifies. But technological innovations do not define a science;
they merely prove that medicine is scientific—i.e., therapeutic interventions are based on the rational
precepts of pathophysiology