Does "medical science" also share "attributes"?

[NewHopeR]

Does "that encompasses medical science as well as personal, humanistic, and professional attributes" mean "that includes medical science attritute, personal attritute, humanistic attribute and professional attribute"?

Context:

Medicine is not a science, but a profession that encompasses medical science as well as personal, humanistic, and professional attributes.

 

[charliedeut]

Hi,

IMO, no. It means that medicine combines, on the one hand, medical science and on the other, the attributes mentioned.

charliedeut

 

[BobK]

I think 'combines' would have been a better choice of word.

b

 

[Chicken Sandwich]

I think 'combines' would have been a better choice of word.

b

Yes I agree, or, as Wikipedia says it, in a slightly different context, medicine applies X, Y and Z to treat and diagnose injury and disease.

By the way, I find the statment, 'Medicine is not a science...' very debatable. I agree with Wikipedia that "applied science" is a more accurate way of describing what medicine is.

 

[NewHopeR]

I think 'combines' would have been a better choice of word.

b

Did you mean "Medicine is not a science, but a profession that combines medical science as well as personal, humanistic, and professional attributes"?

 

[Raymott]

It's a bad sentence anyway. Are there any professions that don't encompass professional attributes?