What the Greatest Medical Breakthrough
 

The British Journal of Medicine was launched 166 years ago. they are doing a poll to determine the greatest medical breakthrough in the last ...you guessed it...166 years. I'd say that period incorporates pretty much all of modern medical science.

Anyway, readers submitted suggestions and they have pared it down to a list of 15, they think are the biggest and bestest.
What do you think? :cool:

Antibiotics.

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Based on my breakfast... I can tell you its not the damn food!

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After pondering this a bit, I'm going with Germ Theory.
The discovery, proof and general acceptance that no, your leg is not rotting off because of a magic spell / offending the leg god / not sacrficing your goat.
The correlation of cause & effect;
1- Made them look for causes for every condition.
2- Discover cures for as many conditions as they can.
3- Probably most important, establish methods of prevention.
:2cents:

How are they differentiating Immunology and Vaccines?

I voted Antibiotics, because it's the closest we've ever come to discovering a "magic pill" to cure something.

Evidence based medicine -- from that, everything else follows.

I went with sanitation, assuming that it would include sterilization.

Evidence based medicine or Germ Theory. I went with germ theory figuring that while antibiotics are great, you wouldn't have bothered w/ them if you thought evil vapours caused your syphilis... As for evidence based medicine:
"if she weighs the same as a duck, then she's made of wood, and therefore a witch..." There's your evidence.

S-what I voted for.

Antibiotics and Sanitation are tied at 4 each, with Germ Theory next at 3, Evidence based medicine at 2 and Vaccines 1. Not that big a spread, really.

But nobody went for Anesthesia, Chlorpromazine, Computers, DNA, Imaging,
Immunology, Oral rehydration therapy, The Pill, Risks of smoking, or Tissue Culture.

I have a feeling the DNA and maybe Computers would score better 10 years from now, but they haven't reached their importance potential yet.

Thanks everyone. :D

LMAO !! !! Hall of fame material!

I gotta go with anesthesia, medical imaging second. Surgery as we know it today would not be possible without it.

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