By Joseph Varon Medicine, at its core, is born from observation. Long before clinical trials, randomized studies, or regulatory agencies existed, physicians treated patients by watching carefully—seeing, touching, listening, and synthesizing what reality presented. It was a craft grounded in sensory perception and human experience.  Few historical figures embody this foundational ethos more than Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus (1493-1541), an extraordinary man whose abilities, insight, and fearless rejection of dogma helped modernize medicine centuries before the scientific method took formal shape. He famously declared that “medicine can only be learned from that which the eyes can see and the fingers touch…practice should not … Continue reading Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus and the Modern Medical Crisis