We live in a
world that is changing as we speak. Apart from the technological breakthroughs
that this era is associated with, we must be aware of the other factors in our
lives that are also changing. Social life is changing, the way we see things is
probably changing as well. In short, everything changes at a given rate.
Everything includes medicine and health care- we have seen incredible advances
that have saved lives or at least were a sign that we are going to get to that
point. Getting people to act and benefit from such things seems, in theory, easy
and even unnecessary-who wouldn’t
want to benefit? In real life, that question does have long answers that can be
viewed from different points –some people don’t want to and others would want but
cannot (again, due to a variety of reasons).
When talking
about advances in medicine and healthcare of the past century we have to
consider vaccines. Whatever views you may have you can’t say that the science and the work
behind developing a vaccine are not important. Yet, no medical procedure is in
theory unable to lead to
