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>>Sorry to hear of your loss and poor experience. But it still seems to me that to issue such a judgment, you'd need to see the before and after as each innovation is ushered in.
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>>FWIW, we're well overdue for some groundbreaking cancer treatments and there's good diabetes work underway with potential to save literally trillions in the US.
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>John
>Thanks for your concern.
>I was probably being flip after spending 11 hours driving thru yet another northeast storm.
>I was not thinking of the scientists working on cures.
>I see health care technology as an end user and the technology is awful.
>When you reach my age, unfortunately, you spend more time with the health care system and get a closer look at it.
>I'm probably overstating this, but I've probably said that I'm allergic to penicillin several hundred times during my lifetime.
>I've been saying that since I had a reaction to it as an 18 year old GI.
>I went to an eye specialist last week...
>I'll give you a thousand chances to guess what the receptionist asked me....

"Do you know of any particular reason why we don't have your case history on the monitor before you walk in?"