From: Dennis Roberts (droberts@netvectors.com)
Date: Sun Apr 04 1999 - 19:29:52 MDT
david gobel wrote:
> Hi
>
> Robin Hanson said...
>
> >Amazingly enough, researchers have yet to measure a significant aggregate
> effect of medicine (doctors, etc.) on health.
>
> This does not surprise me. Most medicine is practiced after homeostasis is
> breached...this places medicine in the position of trying to catch horses
> who've already run out the barn door. From a system analysis standpoint,
> it's a SILLY point on the event curve to try to fix things.
>
I agree to a large extent with David g. Medicine today is the wrong weapon
aimed in the wrong direction.
I think the system is repairable, but not without a massive reeducation of the
public.
Dennis Roberts RT (R) (MR)
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