hundreds of times more credit is due to the non medical sciences. For exponential improvements in sanitation, home and workplace safety, affordable nutrition, and on and on and on,
A gross exageration and a bit of forgetfulness about medical science. Draining swamps and spraying mosquitoes WAS led by medical science.
I'm not sure traumatic injuries have been reduced at all, however, I am certain that treating them has improved to the point that almost no one dies from a compound fracture now.
Sanitation also came out of the medical sciences.