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Defining laboratory medicine: a circle cannot be squared
At the down of the third millennium, it is rather misleading to consider the “whole population” as a conceptual entity, whereby the population is actually composed by single individuals, who differ broadly in terms of age, sex, ethnic origin, occupation, health, wellbeing, lifestyle and risk factors...
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Croatian Society of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8183116/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34140829 http://dx.doi.org/10.11613/BM.2021.020401 |
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description | At the down of the third millennium, it is rather misleading to consider the “whole population” as a conceptual entity, whereby the population is actually composed by single individuals, who differ broadly in terms of age, sex, ethnic origin, occupation, health, wellbeing, lifestyle and risk factors. While reaffirming strongly that laboratory medicine shall aim to provide data that could be translated into actionable information on “BOTH” an individual and universal level, we confute and refuse the naive and too simplistic approach that the common beneficence shall always be prioritized over the individual good, since the common good is just the sum of many individual beneficences. |
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spelling | pubmed-81831162021-06-16 Defining laboratory medicine: a circle cannot be squared Lippi, Giuseppe Plebani, Mario Biochem Med (Zagreb) Letter to the Editor At the down of the third millennium, it is rather misleading to consider the “whole population” as a conceptual entity, whereby the population is actually composed by single individuals, who differ broadly in terms of age, sex, ethnic origin, occupation, health, wellbeing, lifestyle and risk factors. While reaffirming strongly that laboratory medicine shall aim to provide data that could be translated into actionable information on “BOTH” an individual and universal level, we confute and refuse the naive and too simplistic approach that the common beneficence shall always be prioritized over the individual good, since the common good is just the sum of many individual beneficences. Croatian Society of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine 2021-06-15 2021-06-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8183116/ /pubmed/34140829 http://dx.doi.org/10.11613/BM.2021.020401 Text en Croatian Society of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Letter to the Editor Lippi, Giuseppe Plebani, Mario Defining laboratory medicine: a circle cannot be squared |
title | Defining laboratory medicine: a circle cannot be squared |
title_full | Defining laboratory medicine: a circle cannot be squared |
title_fullStr | Defining laboratory medicine: a circle cannot be squared |
title_full_unstemmed | Defining laboratory medicine: a circle cannot be squared |
title_short | Defining laboratory medicine: a circle cannot be squared |
title_sort | defining laboratory medicine: a circle cannot be squared |
topic | Letter to the Editor |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8183116/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34140829 http://dx.doi.org/10.11613/BM.2021.020401 |
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