Comment Re:Basic Research (Score 0) 484
I agree with sofar. I also want to to state some facts:
- the health care system kills huge number of people, from medical errors & hospital infections, the numbers are publicly available and they are very frightening numbers. This is because medical research didn't improve & doctors don't use technology enough.
- They use more invasive procedures than necessary, which has huge risks, instead of using technology. I remember one time when I hurt my knee, the doctor wanted to perform a surgery to find out what is wrong, instead of using an MRI, so I refused and waited for the MRI.
- people with diabetes have to poke themselves, sometimes more than once a day, because there is no device that reads their blood sugar level, non incisively, and we are in the 21st century!
- The MRI machine came from a Chemist, not an MD and almost all the instruments are made and improved by engineers. So I agree, engineers, mathematicians, physicists & chemists, should be involved in the system. Compare the speed & success of companies like Intel, Google, etc.. (run mostly by engineers) to companies that do medical research.
If medical research was remotely close to engineering research, we would be seeing much improved health care system, think Star Trek.
- the health care system kills huge number of people, from medical errors & hospital infections, the numbers are publicly available and they are very frightening numbers. This is because medical research didn't improve & doctors don't use technology enough.
- They use more invasive procedures than necessary, which has huge risks, instead of using technology. I remember one time when I hurt my knee, the doctor wanted to perform a surgery to find out what is wrong, instead of using an MRI, so I refused and waited for the MRI.
- people with diabetes have to poke themselves, sometimes more than once a day, because there is no device that reads their blood sugar level, non incisively, and we are in the 21st century!
- The MRI machine came from a Chemist, not an MD and almost all the instruments are made and improved by engineers. So I agree, engineers, mathematicians, physicists & chemists, should be involved in the system. Compare the speed & success of companies like Intel, Google, etc.. (run mostly by engineers) to companies that do medical research.
If medical research was remotely close to engineering research, we would be seeing much improved health care system, think Star Trek.
