Why is there no breakthrough in modern medicine?
Why is there no breakthrough in modern medicine?
The question raised by the friend at the beginning of this article is really biased, modern medicine for the treatment of diseases, is not completely no substantial progress, some of the treatment of diseases or substantial progress. However, we note that progress in the treatment of a disease does not happen overnight, but is basically a gradual progress and development. The era in which we live is also a stage in the course of history, and it is impossible that everything has been developed in this era, and there are still many things that need to be improved and developed. In fact, in my own specialty of cardiology, there are still many breakthroughs in the treatment of patients.

Diseases in cardiology, with the progress of human science and technology, many of them are forward and constantly evolving. For example, for the treatment of coronary heart disease, it should be said that mankind has made breakthrough progress. In the past, coronary heart disease in the acute myocardial infarction is considered difficult to treat the terminal disease, the "Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine" has a cloud: the true heart pain, the hair of the night and die. It is said that the coronary heart disease in the infarction of this serious situation, usually this kind of disease occurs after the patient will die soon. However, when mankind entered the 1990s, mankind's understanding of this type of disease and means of treatment has undergone rapid progress, from simple balloon dilatation, gradually developed into stent implantation, and later on, there are many superior performance of the treatment method appears. Until now, when coronary heart disease is mentioned, people may not think that it is a terminal disease that cannot be cured, but a disease that can be treated. Therefore, this is a breakthrough treatment program in the development of human medicine.

In addition, cardiology has made breakthroughs in the treatment of many diseases, such as radiofrequency ablation therapy for atrial fibrillation, which also started from the treatment of atrial fibrillation in cardiac surgery and gradually developed into radiofrequency surgery in cardiology, and then the radiofrequency surgery has gradually progressed to the point where now we can see that the radiofrequency surgery has gradually matured into a therapeutic option with a higher cure rate.
In fact, the progress of these treatment options, are not overnight all at once successful, are step by step slowly developed, also have experienced early unsuccessful, and even be skeptical, but it is also for the efforts of generations of medical scientists, so that the treatment options for these diseases are not stuck in a rut, but continue to progress, evolve, and ultimately form a breakthrough progress on a disease. I don't know if I've said so much, you've heard it all. I hope that my introduction today can help you to correctly understand modern medicine.

This is a pseudo-proposition, modern medicine every day there are new developments, new breakthroughs, for example, chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer was once very difficult to cure, and part of the development of gastric cancer, since the discovery of the disease because of the Helicobacter pylori infection, the cure rate is very quickly enhance the healing time is significantly shortened to 15 - 30 days, and to prevent almost 80% of the stomach cancer, so that do not know can check the information to read more, do not pretend to understand, indiscriminate spraying, will become a joke!
Scientific development cannot be rushed, nor can it be rushed. Any scientific research has a process of learning, inheritance and development of the light, which is from quantitative to qualitative changes in the process of breakthrough development.
In fact, modern medicine is advancing every day because it is related to the health of every member of the public. For example, in the past, doctors performed open-knife surgery, but now are gradually using robots to open the knife, if universal is not a breakthrough development?


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The integration of Chinese and Western medicine in the fight against the epidemic is a very successful example, but of course, we are still in the process of development and improvement to summarize.

Respecting talents, respecting science, respecting the law of development, and carrying forward the spirit of teamwork, modern medicine will surely have a breakthrough day of successful development!
According to my understanding, modern medicine refers to Western medicine. First of all, the development and progress of Western medicine depends on the development of human science and technology. That is to say, the progress of modern medicine depends on the overall human science and technology in all aspects. For example, the progress of modern material science has led to the development of implantation therapy technology. For example, we commonly see vascular stents, digestive stents, blockers and so on. The emergence of these therapeutic means has broken the past only through surgery, the only way to get treatment. The trauma associated with surgery has been reduced, and the patient receives more benefits with the same therapeutic effect and purpose. For example, the emergence of all kinds of complex disease examination equipment and large-scale therapeutic instruments is also based on the overall scientific and technological progress of mankind. This is why the more scientifically and technologically advanced a country is, the more advanced its medical development is.

Secondly, differences in human thought have led to differences in the perception and treatment of diseases and the resulting differences in the speed of medical development. For example, on the one hand, the idea of Chinese medicine pervades every aspect of the life of the Chinese people; on the other hand, modern (Western) medicine plays a major social role in the treatment of people's illnesses. For us ordinary people, the theory of Chinese medicine is mysterious in our perception, and it is more "unreal" than the real life situation. Modern medicine, on the other hand, is based on physical objects, which are often recognized by the naked eye or by technical means, and appears to be closer to the reality of life. Therefore, regarding the medical theories or ideas of the East and the West, I personally feel that one (Western medicine) is "bottom-up" and the other (Chinese medicine) is "top-down". This is why the development of Chinese medicine is not as good as that of modern medicine, and in the final analysis, it is not easy to cultivate people with this level of thinking and understanding. Because under the influence of the current social environment, the human mind is more inclined to materialism. This is also the reason why modern medicine is more easily accepted by ordinary people.

Therefore, the progress of modern medicine depends more on the progress of science. Before the emergence of subversive natural science and technology, modern medicine can only stop at the advancement of "technology", but there will not be a "qualitative" breakthrough. If modern medicine wants to have a breakthrough development, I think "borrowing Chinese medicine theory" is not a bad way. But the prerequisite is to train a group of people who really master the "essence of Chinese medicine".

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Every year, MIT selects the world's top 10 new technologies, which can be searched for on their own, and medicine and life sciences have always occupied half of them.
The top 10 technologies for 2020 are:
A new wave of nuclear energy, preterm birth predictions, intestinal microcapsules, customized cancer vaccines, faux meat burgers, carbon dioxide capture, wearable electrocardiographs, sewerless bathrooms, and AI assistants that can really chat.
What's to say that there are no breakthroughs. It's just that we're relatively behind in domestic scientific research (catching up by leaps and bounds), and innovative companies are even more scarce (seriously lagging behind), hence the low popularization rate.
The definition of "modern medicine" is the medicine that corresponds to traditional medicine, the medicine that comes after traditional medicine, the medicine that originates from traditional medicine and evolves scientifically from the empirical traditional medicine by using modern scientific methods to remove the roughness and extract the essence of traditional medicine. Does it mean that traditional medicine is the only "breakthrough" development? Does the invention of penicillin count? Does the discovery of the anesthetic effect of ether count? Does the annihilation of smallpox count?
I think there is a big problem with the question itself, modern medicine is breaking through at a pace and speed that is changing day by day, and the series of discoveries in genetics and other things are changing humanity and the world.
Nowadays, there have been great breakthroughs in medicine, and many surgeries or treatments that could not be done before have been carried out, and the fact that people's life expectancy has gradually increased is the best proof of this.
What is meant by breakthrough? The average life expectancy of human beings has gone from more than 30 years of age in the early years of the founding of the country to more than 70 years of age or even 80 years of age now, and this is not called a breakthrough? If we have to talk about curing cancer, many cancers such as leukemia, lung cancer, breast cancer, thyroid cancer have significantly improved survival. Of course there are still a lot of shortcomings, I feel that we still need to rely on the level of science and technology of the multidisciplinary progress to be able to do, after all, medicine is not a separate behavior. What do you think?
Because there has been no earth-shattering theoretical breakthrough in basic science so far, there has been a lot of progress in various sciences and technologies, including medicine, but we may have taken it for granted without realizing it, without feeling that there has been a significant breakthrough.
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