Expanding the Boundaries of Medicine

摘要: What is medicine's greatest gift to the world? It tempting list vaccines, antibiotics, or procedures, but these individual breakthroughs are simply pieces of a much larger contribution. Medicine's world mounting evidence that our not fatalistic one. We can have positive impact on own mortality. The average American has seen life expectancy increase by over 7 hours for every day elapsed since January 1,1990. As medicine frees people from unnecessary suffering, compromised quality life, and early death, it reaffirms belief in cause-and-effect world. makes possible plan rational future. High death rates infants children before 20th century were thought many be due natural laws. Medicine contradicts fatalism daily, allowing live school age, marriage, and, finally, birth their