Medicine is still all about treating populations, not people - one-size-fits all treatments and diagnoses.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Society and medicine treat us all as members of populations, whereas as individuals we are all unique, and population statistics do not apply.
I think the extreme complexity of medicine has become more than an individual clinician can handle. But not more than teams of clinicians can handle.
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.
Medicine's good for some people. Not for me.
I treated as few patients as I could as a medical student, and I never practiced medicine.
A lot of the differences between people have biologic underpinnings. Now, we have a dogma of egalitarianism. Everyone's the same.
I agree, the world would be a better place if doctors were less enthusiastic about adopting very new drugs.
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
As I've met clinicians in my travels, time after time I've been inspired to hear why people went into medicine: to apply their way-above-average minds (and hearts) to work that's beyond most people's capacity, and perhaps save a few lives.
I've always been struck by the complexity of a world where drugs kill and cure. Where no one is immune.