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I'm not so sure that there's enough evidence in any cases that there is an improvement on health or outcome. Some domains, absolutely. However, many areas we ha
by chaxor 3y ago
I'm not so sure that there's enough evidence in any cases that there is an improvement on health or outcome. Some domains, absolutely. However, many areas we have made very little progress in either mechanistic understanding, or theranostic capability. Diagnostics may be the area of the most amount of progress in the past 100 years, but that doesn't always help much with health outcomes. You're correct in that it is a lot of money however.
- bombcar 3y agoOur response to emergency care (broken bones, concussion, etc) is beyond par, we routinely save people who would have been considered "dead or nearly so" fifty years ago. Our response to issues like obesity and other long-term things is just horrendous - almost always trying to treat symptoms instead of causes.
- midoridensha 3y ago>Our response to issues like obesity and other long-term things is just horrendous - almost always trying to treat symptoms instead of causes. There isn't much you can do about the causes: many of them are intrinsic to the American lifestyle. Come to a country/city where people have to walk everywhere, and you won't see many obese people. That isn't doable in America because almost the entire country (except Manhattan NYC) is designed around everyone using cars to go everywhere, and walking being almost impossible or at least horribly dangerous without getting in your car and going someplace far away specifically meant for that activity.