Thursday, November 29, 2007
Would they kill you?
I'm almost positively sure that in a country, a large part of the income comes from hospital bills and medicine prices. So think about this? Out of all the money "rolling" in from x-rays, check-ups, cancer treatments, STD treatments, etc., if someone found a cure...don't you think it would be ideal to keep it from society? I mean, if you cure everyone of diseases, then doctors, nurses, anesthisiologist, neuralogists, etc., would all be out of jobs. The medical field would cease to exist, which would mean no more making money in the medical field. Universities would lose a huge portion of money from students wanting to go into the field due to having to drop the program from the school's curriculum. The world isn't ready for cures...it would "cost" too much.
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Luckily it would be impossible to cure every ailment and this situation could never happen...
Plus you are forgetting human accidents(car wrecks, broken bones, cuts, sprains, etc.). There is no way to cure or prevent these from happening, so doctors wouldnt really be out of a job, if somehow someone did come up with a miracle cure.
I don't think this would ever be possible. Not all sicknesses are diseases. There are a lot of things that would keep that fgrom happening.
I don't feel this would ever happen. Whoever is responsible for finding any cure is going to want credit for their hard work. If anyone tried to suppress medical cures they would find themself in the middle of a media frenzy.
Although I have seen conspiracy articles claiming that doctors and pharmaceutical companies are 'against' the public, it is a stretch and goes directly against the hippocratic oath that physicians follow. Lawsuits and insurance companies keep medical bills high; the costs of hospitalization however are astronomical to be sure.
As with all the other comments you have received, I am not sure that it could happen in our life time. But I believe you are speaking somewhat theoritically, so I will answer similarly (besides, your point raises some excellent questions that need to be addressed, sooner or later).
The first thing I have realized about the medical industry, a long, long time ago, is that there is a monopoly in the medical field. Its called the AMA. As your comment suggests, they don't want cures or preventative methods, because it doesn't generate large sums of profits or control.
But if you take a close look at many of our ill's in society, money is always the center piece, or the accumulation of large sums for the very few.
So if we as a society want to advance, evolve, or just improve our basis living situation, we have to be prepared to go extreme and realize that we can't solve any problem that exists today, poverty, the uneducated, wars, greed,etc, etc, etc, unless we are willing to create a better system.
Technology is slowly replacing humans in many industries. So what is going to happen to all of us that is going to be replaced by machines?
Society needs to find a solution to how we earn a living, and get food on our plates. Currently, we are just going around in circles waiting for something cataclysmic to change our lives. That seems like the only way things are going to change, like a comet smacking down on earth, or nuclear war, or something.
Because as it stands now, nobody is willing to see the bigger picture. There are no miracle cures, it can only happen if we want it to...and you know how afraid we all are of ch-ch-change.
Even if you cure most diseases, they always mutate. Also you have people getting in to wracks and accidents. There would still be people entering the medical profession, but right now there is a shortage of medical personal.
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