Re:Intentional Fire-Spreading by “Firehawk” Raptors in North...
by dragonwriter on Friday January 05, 2018 @06:31PM
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> According to Dr. Michael Greger, medical care is the third leading cause of death in America:
Everyone is going to die of something. If our medicine is good enough that, barring errors, it solves all other sources of mortality, then medical care would be the first (and indeed only) cause of death.
That it's the third (and there are still others after it) is obviously not ideal, but it's not necessarily a bad sign, either.
Nor does it mean a large share of the problems we face are of our own science/medicine/engineering, it means a large share of the problems we face that aren't solved by our own science/medicine/engineering involve failure of that science/medicine/engineering when deployed against some problem (of whatever origin.)
Everyone is going to die of something. If our medicine is good enough that, barring errors, it solves all other sources of mortality, then medical care would be the first (and indeed only) cause of death.
That it's the third (and there are still others after it) is obviously not ideal, but it's not necessarily a bad sign, either.
Nor does it mean a large share of the problems we face are of our own science/medicine/engineering, it means a large share of the problems we face that aren't solved by our own science/medicine/engineering involve failure of that science/medicine/engineering when deployed against some problem (of whatever origin.)