Waverunner
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I started reading sciencedaily a few years ago and I would encourage everyone to do so. Great medical findings are made on a nearly daily basis. These findings affect the understanding and therefore the treatment of nearly all diseases we know, including CFS. Soon I became very enthralled and optimistic, that healthcare and the treatment for CFS could change in a very positive way. However, about one year later, reality had me back again. I realized that these many great findings didn't start the day I began reading sciencedaily, but there were tons of other great findings, that were made in the years before. So one question came up. This question is probably the most important question for everyone who suffers from a disease:
How can it be, that we have all these great findings but still no treatments?
The answer becomes clear when you look at the computer industry. We also have great scientific findings in this field, they also arrive on a daily basis. The big difference is, that these findings get transformed into practice within a very short period of time, even weeks or months. The company decides, if the finding should be implemented in its new product and the consumer decides if he likes it or not. If it is beneficial, the consumer will buy it and the finding will have its place for further development, if the consumer doesn't like it, the product will vanish from the market.
Flawed Healthcare!
Please read the following article to understand why things are different in the healthcare field.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/walker/walker29.html
Computers work. We complain about them, but that's because most of the time they work so fast that we don't even notice them in the background. And they get cheaper by the second. They get cheaper so fast that we can see the prices of memory and processor speed falling even without adjusting for inflation.
Health care, on the other hand, gets more expensive all the time, even for techniques that were invented decades ago. Computers get twice as fast every two years, but technology for carbon-based organisms improves at a snail's pace. Why? Biology isn't all that complex. After all, our cells only have the equivalent of about 2.8 gigabytes of (very slow) DNA memory storage. The viruses that kill us often get by with 12 kilobytes. Your cellphone has more memory than most pathogens, and cellphone design mutates more over the course of a year than the flu.
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How can it be, that we have all these great findings but still no treatments?
The answer becomes clear when you look at the computer industry. We also have great scientific findings in this field, they also arrive on a daily basis. The big difference is, that these findings get transformed into practice within a very short period of time, even weeks or months. The company decides, if the finding should be implemented in its new product and the consumer decides if he likes it or not. If it is beneficial, the consumer will buy it and the finding will have its place for further development, if the consumer doesn't like it, the product will vanish from the market.
Flawed Healthcare!
Please read the following article to understand why things are different in the healthcare field.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/walker/walker29.html
Computers work. We complain about them, but that's because most of the time they work so fast that we don't even notice them in the background. And they get cheaper by the second. They get cheaper so fast that we can see the prices of memory and processor speed falling even without adjusting for inflation.
Health care, on the other hand, gets more expensive all the time, even for techniques that were invented decades ago. Computers get twice as fast every two years, but technology for carbon-based organisms improves at a snail's pace. Why? Biology isn't all that complex. After all, our cells only have the equivalent of about 2.8 gigabytes of (very slow) DNA memory storage. The viruses that kill us often get by with 12 kilobytes. Your cellphone has more memory than most pathogens, and cellphone design mutates more over the course of a year than the flu.
Read rest of the article here