Researcher’s and doctor’s tools: the boundaries of achievable results and the impact on the study findings. Proceedings of the XIV Vein Conference round table held on February 10th , 2018 (to the 120th anniversary of P.K. Anokhin)

Abstract

The 14^th Vein Conference included a round table devoted to the problem of the boundaries of achievable results in medical research. Health professionals, physiologists, metrologists, philosophers and social scientists were invited to participate in the conference.  The discussion revealed that the problem of the limitation of scientific tools is true not only for medicine but for any scientific knowledge. The paper outlines the main ideas presented by the round table participants. These ideas can be interesting and useful both to medical scientists and researchers working in other fields such as social sciences or philosophy.