These advances will grind to a halt once we get socialized medicine in America. America is the last bastion of experiment and development of drugs. What European companies still do research only do it because of the American market. The research is extremely expensive and the patents received and the monopoly prices that derive from those patents while they are in force are what pays for the research for the new drugs and for the ones that failed. We complain about the high cost of new drugs in America but the alternative is no new drugs. When the government is the payer for medicine then there can be no more drug research or new machines because the government has to weigh medical expenses against Defense and Welfare and bureaucrats’ salaries.An individual’s health is his priority and he will pay what he must to maintain it. The government has to decide who is worthy to get healthcare and does not have that individual’s priority at all.
I read or heard about the struggle Franz Lister had convincing people to spray his liquid over the surgical site, after very deep cleansing of the surgical team, before, during and after surgery.
People began to actually survive.