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From an outside perspective: Imo as a society we should reframe the question from 'how to we cure people?' to 'how do we make people's quality/quantity of life
by thereisnospork 7y ago
From an outside perspective:
Imo as a society we should reframe the question from 'how to we cure people?' to 'how do we make people's quality/quantity of life better?' It feels somewhat as if there is a gradual creep of what qualifies as a 'disease' and is therefore worthy of treatment.
It also seems like there is an archaic adverseness to non diagnostic related measurement and data. The argument e.g. if we detect something that might be a tumor in a full body scan we have to instigate a series of painful and probably unnecessary biopsies. Imo (again) this represents an overly simplistic view of what the appropriate treatment should be. To say nothing of the dearth of information we have about the day-to-day and hour-to-hour variation in biomarkers in both the healthy and the sick and all the good that information might be used for.