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Medicine is a good example of a field that has benefited enormously from publically funded research. In countries with nationally-funded health services, it is
by chestnut-tree 13y ago
Medicine is a good example of a field that has benefited enormously from publically funded research. In countries with nationally-funded health services, it is often the doctors and healthcare professionals who treat patients who carry out clinical trials and medical research. Sometimes this research is done in partnership with private companies. But without Government support, a huge amount of valuable medical research would never be undertaken.
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoErm, and how is that really different from the USA, which doesn't have a nationally funded health service? Well, one could argue it might as well be given that many hospitals are publicly supported, or are even attached to medical schools, and a large amount of health care is funded through medicare? And the USA does tend to do much more medical research than anyone else (most of it publicly funded).