>>Think about what medicine was like in the first few centuries ... I spend thinking about medicine quite a lot (health problems in my family run deep) and thi

>>Think about what medicine was like in the first few centuries ... I spend thinking about medicine quite a lot (health problems in my family run deep) and this does not give me great deal of hope for our industry at all. There is so much quackery everywhere - most of diagnostics is based on some magic guess work. If symptoms are non-specific than You are out of luck - You have to spend years visiting random doctors hoping that one of them will have fresh enough memory of some book that he read years ago to guess right. And even when the diagnosis is easy the therapy can be not that far away from leeches. Few years ago I had wart on my hand and dermatologist offered me three options: - freeze it to death - burn it to death with acid - cut it out If You look at this options closely they require some high tech to be possible but from medical point of view they are as primitive as leeches. I honestly belive that in 100 years time when nanorobots will be available to everyone the doctor will prescrabie therapy that is basically nanorobots attacking the wart with little flamethrowers.