Abstract Medicine is perhaps the only science that values knowledge of the most recent scientific publications more than its history over time. Medical epistemology shows that some mistakes and successes are so close that we often do not readily differentiate between them. The production of medical knowledge makes us understand that knowledge is transitory and theories need to be revalidated, rectified, or polished, if not destroyed and built again on other bases; paradigms that are renewed move science. With this […]