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Oh dear christ. A lot of the medical devices that could actually help people are well within the ability of even a small team of undergrads to produce--and man
by angersock 11y ago
Oh dear christ.
A lot of the medical devices that could actually help people are well within the ability of even a small team of undergrads to produce--and many do!
It's the sheer fuckheadedry of the market and regulatory environment and capture of the FDA and insurers that basically make bringing anything to bear a tedious, hair-graying experience.
- WalterBright 11y agoYou might like "Regulation of Pharmaceutical Innovation" by Sam Peltzman, who analyzes this effect with statistics.
- pinaceae 11y agototally, who needs the FDA. a little thalidomide is good for you, nothing like untested and unproven stuff to shove into your veins. let's also abolish the FAA, air travel needs to be freed from the shackles of safety. because innovation and disruption and stuff.
- angersock 11y agoHow many things have you gotten through the FDA, friend? The fact is, and it's well-documented, that there are many scientifically unsubstantiated claims and procedures being done, that there is a vast paucity of decent software, that patients are being injured and maimed and killed and empoverished. And yet, there are these super-strict market-approval processes and weird regulatory requirements on where and how you can open hospitals (which is how they killed a lot of abortion clinics in Texas, by the way) and a cartel-enforced supply-shortage of trained physicians. Things are fucked. The interactions of the government and the not-quite-free-market have produced this sort of perverted and broken system.