I'm surprised more people haven't noticed that medical progress slowed way down after 1984.
It's not just medical science that's hit a wall. Lee Smolin's 2004 The Trouble With Physics claims physics has been frozen for decades. (At least physics has a book on this. I think physicians are in denial.)
What other sciences have stopped making progress? Biology seems to be very healthy ...
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If biology is making progress, that should translate into medicine sooner or later.
How has the digitization/computerization of medicine affected things? Are the changes made by computers in the medical field mostly peripheral? I also keep reading about 'lab on a chip' style devices. Have those not materialized in actual usage?
I guess the big question is, what happens to the seemingly big breakthroughs on the way from the research community to actual usage? Are these breakthroughs just over-hyped in the first place?
And if medical progress has mostly stopped, does the huge increase in medical costs over the last three decades derive from a new class of rentiers?
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