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	<title>Comments on: The 21st Century in Medicine: What will it look like?</title>
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		<title>By: Leroy Glinchy</title>
		<link>http://scienceroll.com/2008/05/10/the-21st-century-in-medicine-what-will-it-look-like/#comment-35223</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Leroy Glinchy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 18:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The uninsured in the US is just a reflection of the fact that our expectations for what medicine should be and what we have resources for are different. It is possible to keep people alive long after their bodies have broken down to the point where living is no fun for them nor for their relatives. Yet, there are religious, moral, and guilt induced reasons for keeping them alive. On the other hand, there is not prevention for the most basic diseases in America such as obesity which is leading to diabetes and heart disease.

It seems as if by not planning things out in a sensible manner and letting things go willy nilly, we are running a system that is efficient for creating and maintaining suffering in humans.

Things are going to get worse after things get worse. One of the things we don&#039;t think of when we think of medicine:

1. It&#039;s very environmentally unfriendly. Things come in millions of plastic packaging that gets tossed into a landfill which will remain plastic basically forever on a human scale.

2. The entire medical system is based on oil! Oil is going away and will never come back. We will never have such a versatile material for making medical tools such as plastic. Yet we are burning it so we can drive oversized vehicles to impress our neighbors. Ironically, these vehicles are creating pollution that results in massive childhood asthma.

In the future, we&#039;ll have less resources to treat disease. Yet, people keep going on creating these pipe dreams of how medicine is going to be assuming we have unlimited energy to do all this stuff.

In reality there&#039;s not enough energy to go around right now. I wonder who will be blamed for this mess.

My guess is that environmentalists and bicyclists will somehow get the brunt  of the anger.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The uninsured in the US is just a reflection of the fact that our expectations for what medicine should be and what we have resources for are different. It is possible to keep people alive long after their bodies have broken down to the point where living is no fun for them nor for their relatives. Yet, there are religious, moral, and guilt induced reasons for keeping them alive. On the other hand, there is not prevention for the most basic diseases in America such as obesity which is leading to diabetes and heart disease.</p>
<p>It seems as if by not planning things out in a sensible manner and letting things go willy nilly, we are running a system that is efficient for creating and maintaining suffering in humans.</p>
<p>Things are going to get worse after things get worse. One of the things we don&#8217;t think of when we think of medicine:</p>
<p>1. It&#8217;s very environmentally unfriendly. Things come in millions of plastic packaging that gets tossed into a landfill which will remain plastic basically forever on a human scale.</p>
<p>2. The entire medical system is based on oil! Oil is going away and will never come back. We will never have such a versatile material for making medical tools such as plastic. Yet we are burning it so we can drive oversized vehicles to impress our neighbors. Ironically, these vehicles are creating pollution that results in massive childhood asthma.</p>
<p>In the future, we&#8217;ll have less resources to treat disease. Yet, people keep going on creating these pipe dreams of how medicine is going to be assuming we have unlimited energy to do all this stuff.</p>
<p>In reality there&#8217;s not enough energy to go around right now. I wonder who will be blamed for this mess.</p>
<p>My guess is that environmentalists and bicyclists will somehow get the brunt  of the anger.</p>
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		<title>By: artclecticacademic</title>
		<link>http://scienceroll.com/2008/05/10/the-21st-century-in-medicine-what-will-it-look-like/#comment-35210</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 21:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I agree that personalized medicine is a long shot.  We can&#039;t even take care of the millions of uninsured we currently have in this country.  The individualized ethic that has ruled capitalist economies applies uniquely to healthcare, but much of the world is moving toward more community-based therapies, and I don&#039;t just mean socializing the system.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree that personalized medicine is a long shot.  We can&#8217;t even take care of the millions of uninsured we currently have in this country.  The individualized ethic that has ruled capitalist economies applies uniquely to healthcare, but much of the world is moving toward more community-based therapies, and I don&#8217;t just mean socializing the system.</p>
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		<title>By: DR</title>
		<link>http://scienceroll.com/2008/05/10/the-21st-century-in-medicine-what-will-it-look-like/#comment-35205</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[DR]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 18:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If knowledge is power, the more we know about the human body, the better off we will be in diagnosing or preventing dis-ease.

Not to rain on the genetic parade, but the current research in epigentics is stealing some of DNAs thunder as the holy grail of biological research.

To the layperson, it&#039;s not a competition, but to the scientists?

I hope that the dogma inherent in modern biology doesn&#039;t close its&#039; collective eyes to results that they don&#039;t want to see.

Just the opinion of a layperson]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If knowledge is power, the more we know about the human body, the better off we will be in diagnosing or preventing dis-ease.</p>
<p>Not to rain on the genetic parade, but the current research in epigentics is stealing some of DNAs thunder as the holy grail of biological research.</p>
<p>To the layperson, it&#8217;s not a competition, but to the scientists?</p>
<p>I hope that the dogma inherent in modern biology doesn&#8217;t close its&#8217; collective eyes to results that they don&#8217;t want to see.</p>
<p>Just the opinion of a layperson</p>
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		<title>By: Monica Livingstone</title>
		<link>http://scienceroll.com/2008/05/10/the-21st-century-in-medicine-what-will-it-look-like/#comment-35196</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Monica Livingstone]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 19:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Personalized medicine and personalized drugs seems to be the Holy Grail. I hope these things may be achived in the NEAR future.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Personalized medicine and personalized drugs seems to be the Holy Grail. I hope these things may be achived in the NEAR future.</p>
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		<title>By: dianarn</title>
		<link>http://scienceroll.com/2008/05/10/the-21st-century-in-medicine-what-will-it-look-like/#comment-35194</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[dianarn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 18:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, according to the Georgia Guidestones, humanity will be maintained under 500 million in perpetual balance with nature, and reproduction will be &quot;guided wisely&quot; with a focus on fitness and diversity. 

Sounds like a good time, doesn&#039;t it?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, according to the Georgia Guidestones, humanity will be maintained under 500 million in perpetual balance with nature, and reproduction will be &#8220;guided wisely&#8221; with a focus on fitness and diversity. </p>
<p>Sounds like a good time, doesn&#8217;t it?</p>
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