Medical Hypotheses
Volume 59, Issue 1 , Page 62, July 2002

Is organ cooperation a compromise?

  • Jaroslav V Frei

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    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Jaroslav V. Frei MD phD, Professor Emeritus of Pathology, The University of Western Ontario, 611-80 Front Street East, Toronto, ON, M5E 1T4, Canada. Phone: 416-369-9564

The University of Western Ontario, Toronto, Canada

Received 2 July 2001; accepted 1 November 2001.

Abstract 

It is proposed that since organs of the body evolved due to chance events and therefore do not represent a logical system, compromises between their functions are necessary for survival. Medicine then becomes a study of an essentially disorderly system capable of malfunctioning in unexpected ways.

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PII: S0306-9877(02)00117-2

Medical Hypotheses
Volume 59, Issue 1 , Page 62, July 2002

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