Work in healthcare?

[mercutio]

at the swear filter

[paul bristol uk]

Have I logged into the wrong forum?

I was beginning to wonder that as well! My attention span is not that great, did the bloke get the girl in the end?

[Sailor]

My attention span is not that great, did the bloke get the girl in the end?

Yes, he did.
He then claimed that his experiments were 'for the good of mankind'.

[Donald]

Paul, you are behind the times. The government has banned all literature that isn't gender-neutral and LGBT-friendly! Watch they don't come knocking.

So did anyone figure out what the 4thgenphil word is then?

Back to politics again. And budgets. And expectations.
What is 'fundamental' or 'primary' healthcare? Fixing broken things and combating diseases, no doubt. But where do we stand on treating idiots who smoke (like me), or who simply eat far too much of the wrong things (like umpteen others)?

It is tricksy stuff. So many factors. 1 in 8 deaths (worldwide) is due to air pollution, and self-inflicted pollution is a minority. And what you say about demands - another annoying area.

It's articles like the gene one that cause the public to run away with an idea. I understand the need for journalism, but the International Business Times writing an article with zero references and several claims... leave it to the appropriate outlet. I'm sure if New Scientist ran a piece of the stock market and the next big investment they'd all have a good laugh. Plus this proposed 'cancer-immunity' gene is nothing new. It's been several years since the naked mole-rat genome was sequenced... oh and it's extremely long lived for a rodent and has several genes responsible for strong cancer resistance. It too is/was held as a candidate for ending cancer, is indubitably easier to work with, but is it as glamorous?

[mercutio]

the swear filter is K.n.o.b.h.e.a.d

[4thgenphil]

4thgenphil

[BlackMwack]

[Sailor]

Expectations of medical advances within say the next 5-10 years

Some technical stuff that's already on its way:-
- 3D printers become more and more common for replacement parts.
- In-person dialysis.
- CNC surgery hooked up to the next generation of CAT and MRI equipment.
- More use of focussed ultrasound in non-invasive tumour removal.
- Better disease control for worldwide issues, eg: malaria.

What will continue:-
- Research and Development generally focussed on First World issues because the payback is better. This means that the Third World would slip further behind if it weren’t for the rash of poor copies. Some of these might actually work.
- More and more sophisticated surgical equipment with bells and whistles that aren’t actually all that useful but bring higher profit margins.

People are already thinking about:-
- Crowd funding to take on specific projects.

And wouldn't it be nice if:-
- Return to an NHS where the ‘shop floor’ is run by the care professionals and not careerists who believe that the most powerful medical aid is an MBA.

[Donald]

Will comment further tomorrow but so I don't forget:

More use of focussed ultrasound in non-invasive tumour removal.
- Better disease control for worldwide issues, eg: malaria.

Nanobubbles
GM mosquitos

Crowd funding to take on specific projects.

Million pound Horizon thing

Research and Development generally focussed on First World issues because the payback is better. This means that the Third World would slip further behind

Interesting that plenty of 'third world' countries have ratified the ICESCR 1966, yet the US hasn't.

[Sailor]

Interesting that plenty of 'third world' countries have ratified the ICESCR 1966, yet the US hasn't.

They did sign it, in 1977, but don't really go for it. They prefer the ICCPR, which doesn't have the same Health clauses.