I don't think we need to group medicine as one thing that is too risk or conservative. We need to evaluate different branches of medicine. In the current cult

I don't think we need to group medicine as one thing that is too risk or conservative. We need to evaluate different branches of medicine. In the current culture, we have a bias to accept more risk from surgery than pharmaceuticals. Imagine you want to be appear more muscular. You could get implants under general anesthesia or you could take steroids. The first is legal, but the second is illegal. It is illegal because society deems that taking steroids is excessively risky. However general anesthesia and surgery are orders of magnitude more dangerous. This same bias present throughout medicine. Many surgical procedures and tests would never pass the FDA's requirements for pharmaceuticals.