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orthodoc · 03-14-2013, 10:44 AM

If not for modern medicine I would have died in 1985 along with my oldest son. If not then, it would have been late in 1986 when I went septic with peritonitis.

Public health interventions have had enormous impact worldwide. Clean drinking water; immunizations; general hygiene and sewage disposal; more recently, reductions in tobacco use.

Acute care innovations that ironically came out of battlefield medicine have made things better, not worse: trauma principles and protocols save lives today that 50 years ago would have ended tragically.

We've adopted a consumer culture, sedentary lifestyle, and dietary habits that are killing us. The fallout of those factors is what we really need to address in the next few years, I believe.

03-14-2013, 10:44 AM	#28
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	If not for modern medicine I would have died in 1985 along with my oldest son. If not then, it would have been late in 1986 when I went septic with peritonitis. Public health interventions have had enormous impact worldwide. Clean drinking water; immunizations; general hygiene and sewage disposal; more recently, reductions in tobacco use. Acute care innovations that ironically came out of battlefield medicine have made things better, not worse: trauma principles and protocols save lives today that 50 years ago would have ended tragically. We've adopted a consumer culture, sedentary lifestyle, and dietary habits that are killing us. The fallout of those factors is what we really need to address in the next few years, I believe. __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi