Health Affairs Puts The Place Of Technology In Health Care In A Larger Perspective.

This appeared last week:How The Rise Of Medical Technology Is Worsening DeathJessica Nutik Zitter November 6, 2017 10.1377/hblog20171101.612681 Our aging population is at risk from a most benign-appearing source —the medical technologies we trust to keep us healthy.When they were first widely used in the 1930s and 1940s, breathing machines did what humans could never have imagined a generation earlier: They kept young polio victims alive until their bodies cleared the virus that had temporarily weakened t heir respiratory system. Thanks to these miraculous machines, tens of thousands of these patients recovered and went home to live out the rest of their lives. This bold new use of medical technology riveted the world and set the stage for a new era in medicine, in which an overriding faith in the cu rative powers of technology prevailed. Over the next several decades, doctors assumed that everyone wanted and deserved access to these treatments. The breathing machine, or mechanical... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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