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Re:Gonorrhea Is Becoming Untreatable, U.N. Health Officials ... by dogma1138 on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @08:09PM (#12394959)
>The health industry as a whole, has been weakened by the discovery of antibiotics and designer molecules, and as a result now spends too many resources on looking for killer chemicals (antibiotics and other drugs).

What!? antibiotics are for the most part the most important discovery in medical history, period. They by far saved more lives than virtually any other treatment and make many other treatments possible.

Re:Gonorrhea Is Becoming Untreatable, U.N. Health Officials ... by viraptor on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @09:43PM (#12395347)
These two things are not incompatible. Yes, antibiotics are awesome. Yes, we messed up because these days you can convince your doctor to give you antibiotics for viral infections (they will tell you it's useless though) and take as little as you want of it, and create more resistance problems.
Re:Gonorrhea Is Becoming Untreatable, U.N. Health Officials ... by ekianjo on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @08:56PM (#12395150)
And make implants possible as well.
Re:Gonorrhea Is Becoming Untreatable, U.N. Health Officials ... by dogma1138 on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @10:23AM (#12398493)
It means you don't die when you go into surgery, you don't die from burns, you don't die from severe bone fracture, and cancer is actually treatable.

Chemo and radiation therapy tend to reek havoc with the immune system, certain types of cancer leave you with little to no white blood cells period.

Without antibiotics you could not have these treatment regiments at all as without preemptive and reactionary antibiotic treatments many cancer patients would die.

Without anti virals and antibiotic other conditions with compromised immune system including HIV would be considerably more fatal as well.