Complex patients – an academism or reality?

In the article Lost in Thought: The Limits of the Human Mind and the Future of Medicine published in The New England Journal of Medicine in 2017, the authors deal with a new challenge in medicine – complexity. They state the overall problem: “Medical thinking has become vastly more complex, mirroring changes in our patients, our health care system, and medical science. The complexity of medicine now exceeds the capacity of the human mind.” (1).