One half of USA doctor visits result in NO quantifiable improvement in the patient’s condition.
Despite spending trillions for research and treatment, modern medicine has few answers to the physical destruction of old age.
In 2009, the greatest enemy of good health is your BIRTHDAY.
Medical research will slowly extend the human life span and quality of life.
Increasing the number of clinical doctors will make only a minor contribution to public health in the coming decades.
There are a few breakthroughs I hope for
A way to prevent Alzheimer's Disease
-— My elderly patients live in fear of this
-— more than anything else
A centrally acting Substance P blocker
-— This would be the first genuinely useful
-— Answer to human suffering
A meaningful way to reverse vascular disease
-— HTN, Diabetes, hypercholesterolemia, smoking
-— would no longer irreversibly damage the vascular tree