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Is Medicine Overrated?
submitted 4 years ago by Entropick from blogs.scientificamerican.com
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Modern medicine is overrated. Modern medicine gets too much credit for boosting average life spans, according to Stegenga. He cites evidence compiled by scholar/physician Thomas McKeown in the 1970s that increased longevity results less from vaccines, antibiotics and other medical advances than from improved standards of living, nutrition, water treatment and sanitation.
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