health
The
Future
of
Medicine
Modern scientific medicine has brought
enormous benefit to humankind, including
antibiotics, vaccinations, surgery, and
pharmacology. But there are also severe
downsides to modern medicine. Not least
among these problems are that fully one
third of illnesses resulting in hospitalisation
and deaths in hospital are iatrogenic,
which means that they have been
caused by doctors and/or the allopathic
treatments they have prescribed.
Professor Daniel Weber, of Charles Sturt
University, Australia, takes a close look at
the future of medicines as the limitations
of modern medical practice begin to be
exposed, even as increasingly revenue-strapped
major pharmaceutical companies branch in
complementary and alternative medicines (CAMs)
for new sources of revenue.
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