It's not beyond the possibility that there still could be a YES in 200 years' time... of course with different members, unless the medical profession comes up with something extraordinary.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In many ways, I think about the possibility that there could still be a Yes in 100 or 200 years from now, just like a live symphony orchestra.
I think that in the 21st century, medical biology will advance at a more rapid pace than before.
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.
I think we're rapidly approaching the day where medical science can keep people alive in hospitals, hooked up to tubes and things, far beyond when any kind of quality of life is left at all.
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
I think history would say that medical research has, throughout many changes of parties, remained as one of the shining lights of bipartisan agreement, that people are concerned about health for themselves, for their families, for their constituents.
If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.
There are some people who're all doctors. Is it genetic?
It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.
We can now diagnose diseases that haven't even manifested in the patient, and may not until the fifth decade of life - if at all.