Hubble telescope up the bum.....sounds pretty advanced. Where are the diagnostic beds, scans that detect EVERYTHING, right down to blood gas and toxicology? Seems to me that MRI has advanced pretty far, why not, with the computing and sensor advances made in the last 20 years, have a device that CAN detect everything.
< tinfoil beanie> It almost seems that the medical machine is more interested in treatment than in cure < /tinfiol beanie off>
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Well, once such perfection is achieved, the inventor will be richer than Bill Gates. :-)
Radiology is experimenting with "virtual colonoscopy" but it has a long way to go before it can compete with a fiber optic, color colonoscopy unit that makes the "hairs" of the terry cloth towel on the prep table look like giant cloth worms on the TV monitor.
< tinfoil beanie> It almost seems that the medical machine is more interested in treatment than in cure < /tinfiol beanie off>
Some diseases, like some infectious diseases, you can pre=emptively "cure" by vaccination, driving the pathogen to extinction, etc. For other things such as cancer, science is not there yet. Inside all of us, there is a genetic code that almost guarantees we will be dead by 100 years just like dogs are almost guaranteed to be dead by age 20.
Something's going to get you.
Colonoscopy, however, is a cure. My colonoscopy found a single benign polyp that could have developed into the colon cancer I was going to have in the year 2014.