> Let me add that one of the most important medical advances in the 20th
> century was simply better sanitation.
>
> << Chuck0 >>
>
> -Yes, but you life would be much worse for many people withouth
> "unimportant"
> -things like antibiotics, cancer therapy or anesthesia, just to mention a
> few....
> -A few years ago I had chronic otitis an was submitted to surgery and
> therapy
> -with antibiotics, I had a reasonable chance of dying was I in a wonderful
> -pre industrial society and many of you probably already were in similar
> situations....
My argument was that if you could eliminate the cause of "diseases of civilization" then you could focus on what was really needed to keep people alive with other problems.
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An American soldier in a hospital explained how he was wounded: He said, "I was told that the way to tell a hostile Vietnamese from a friendly Vietnamese was to shout ‘To hell with Ho Chi Minh!’ If he shoots, he’s unfriendly. So I saw this dude and yelled ‘To hell with Ho Chi Minh!’ and he yelled back, ‘To hell with President Johnson!’ We were shaking hands when a truck hit us."
(from 1,001 Ways to Beat the Draft, by Tuli Kupferburg).