We may be on the cusp of a golden age for medicine

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Haha. An elderly friend of mine spent ~24 hours in an emergency room after breaking their hip recently. Save the innovation for <i>after</i> we resolve the universal health care access problem.

Reading articles like this is frustrating, when we can’t even get generic cancer treatments <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.phillyvoice.com&#x2F;cancer-drug-shortage-generics-rationing-fda-&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.phillyvoice.com&#x2F;cancer-drug-shortage-generics-ra...</a><p>Pharmaceuticals and insurance should be ripe for disruption, yet it’s too big for anyone to take on because we can’t manufacture locally at scale.<p>Meanwhile different actors will blame “government” or “big pharma” and nothing gets done.

We wouldn&#x27;t need to emphasize a &quot;golden age of medicine&quot; if everyone had the same access to proper nutritional foods. Most of America is an utter food desert.<p>Read: not overprocessed, highly refined, ultra palettable shit.<p>A &quot;golden age of whole foods&quot; (not the corporation, actual food) would be better for everyone. Just not Big Pharma shareholders.

I don&#x27;t think people realize how relatively easy it is today to have a healthy lifestyle.<p>Don&#x27;t smoke, don&#x27;t vape, drink a little and cook at home. There has never been a better availability of fresh produce everywhere in America and they have never been as cheap at they are. The big killers today are cardiac diseases, diabetes and chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases. All of these three are mostly preventable.<p>An early 20&#x27;s guy who follow these basic recommendations can be pretty certain to have a pretty nice quality of life.

I&#x27;ll believe it when I see it. Til then, I&#x27;m stuck with a pill pusher who charges me several hundred dollars for a 2 hour wait and a 15 minute consultation. A golden age tomorrow, emerging out of an environment today, where experimental chemicals are advertised directly to users in between scenes glorifying self destruction. A golden age will spring spontaneously out of this? Sure, I&#x27;m excited.

Show the results and declare a golden age later. The &quot;golden age&quot; label is not for contemporary journalists.

Might be more accurate to call it the gilded age of medicine?

I&#x27;ve wondered if in the next 20 years they will learn to extend life 10 years, and in those 10 years learn to extend life 10 more years, and so on. We could be on the brink of human immortality and not even know it. It probably has to happen that way, some sort of exponential function pushes us into a singularity for life expectancy

Note how the claim in the title (&quot;looks like we&#x27;re in&quot;) is immediately walked back by the subtitle (&quot;may be on the cusp&quot;). Common trick.<p>I&#x27;ve grafted the two in the title above.

Not surprising, with all the extra sick people suddenly popping up, more opportunity. Wonder how that happened?

We have seen how fast a virus evades a vaccine.<p>We have multiple strains of antibiotic resistant bacteria.<p>We see how fungi evolve to survive in humans.<p>Could also be the beginning of a new dark age.

who&#x27;s we?

I would expect an article title like this to be backed up by some dramatic increase in healthcare availability (like free healthcare in the U.S.) but no, it&#x27;s just the people at the high end have access to better care than ever before. Hooray.