Pharma is probably the most scientifically based portion of medicine anywhere, but it's only a small part of medicine overall. Who is investigating the efficacy of common surgical procedures? Who is investigating the accuracy and specificity of various tests? What is the best management for the various manifestations of heart disease? Diabetes? What is the best way to treat severe extensive burns? What is the best way to avoid premature birth, and to deal with premature babies?
Outside of pharma, you'd be surprised how much medicine is based on tradition rather than hard science. Not that those traditions are all bad - but very few of them have been proven effective.
What does one expect from "conventional" medicine
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Now I did a job. I got nothing but trouble since I did it, not to mention more than a few unkind words as regard to my character so let me make this abundantly clear. I do the job. And then I get paid.- Malcolm Reynolds, Captain of Serenity, which sums up my feelings regarding the lawsuit discussed here.
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Now you're shifting the goal posts, Broomstick.Broomstick wrote:Pharma is probably the most scientifically based portion of medicine anywhere, but it's only a small part of medicine overall. Who is investigating the efficacy of common surgical procedures? Who is investigating the accuracy and specificity of various tests? What is the best management for the various manifestations of heart disease? Diabetes? What is the best way to treat severe extensive burns? What is the best way to avoid premature birth, and to deal with premature babies?
Outside of pharma, you'd be surprised how much medicine is based on tradition rather than hard science. Not that those traditions are all bad - but very few of them have been proven effective.
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How?
I thought we were talking about "conventional medicine", not "big pharma exclusively"
I thought we were talking about "conventional medicine", not "big pharma exclusively"
A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. Leonard Nimoy.
Now I did a job. I got nothing but trouble since I did it, not to mention more than a few unkind words as regard to my character so let me make this abundantly clear. I do the job. And then I get paid.- Malcolm Reynolds, Captain of Serenity, which sums up my feelings regarding the lawsuit discussed here.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. - John F. Kennedy
Sam Vimes Theory of Economic Injustice
Now I did a job. I got nothing but trouble since I did it, not to mention more than a few unkind words as regard to my character so let me make this abundantly clear. I do the job. And then I get paid.- Malcolm Reynolds, Captain of Serenity, which sums up my feelings regarding the lawsuit discussed here.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. - John F. Kennedy
Sam Vimes Theory of Economic Injustice