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I'm European so maybe I'm just proving your point , but I think you're severely overestimating modern medicine. Most ailments get 'treated' alright, but the ac
by y4mi 9y ago
I'm European so maybe I'm just proving your point , but I think you're severely overestimating modern medicine.
Most ailments get 'treated' alright, but the actual help you get isnt statistically better than placebos would've been.
Often, you get better despite of the treatment, not because of it.
Even something as basic as a broken bone just boils down to 'force patient to keep still while nobody does anything for weeks'.
.. heck, the biggest impact on healthcare continues to be personal hygiene. Most of the life expectancy improvements within the last 200 years can be attributed to that.
- robbiep 9y agoThis is demonstrably false on a huge number of conditions: type 1 diabetes, arthritis (knee and hip replacements), childhood vaccinations, antibiotics- you are being disingenuous to the advances over even the last 50 years here.
- y4mi 9y agoah, I did not mean to imply that modern medicine is useless. I'm sorry if that sounded like that. there are absolutely examples of its success, as you've correctly pointed out! It's still not nearly as amazing as the grand-grandparent made it sound. and my previous statement still stands: personal hygiene continues to save more people than any other treatment. this includes vaccinations and antibiotics (they're both wonderful discoveries that help save a lot of people).