TY - JOUR T1 - Science and research for clinicians JF - Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition JO - Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed SP - 131 LP - 131 DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2013-304056 VL - 98 IS - 4 AU - Neena Modi Y1 - 2013/08/01 UR - http://ep.bmj.com/content/98/4/131.abstract N2 - Clinicians are busy people. We're also jacks of many trades, willingly or of necessity, able to turn a hand to diverse tasks. Caught up in the inevitable frustrations of life in the National Health Service, it's worth pausing once in a while, and reflecting on what brought us into medicine. For many, possibly for all of us to greater or lesser extent, it was a fascination with science. That first glimpse down a microscope, or sight of a beating heart. But science moves at a frantic pace and it's difficult to keep up. All the more so because science does not aspire to absolute truth, only to a diminishing uncertainty; the rejection … ER -