Re: Dubya and healthcare

In article <7vtig3dg1l172lbe5a5tqduqjc5scg0m1d@xxxxxxx>,
Jack Hollis <xsleeper@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 18:32:44 -0400, "William A. T. Clark"
<clarknospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You know what, Jack, a great many of the advances in today's medicine
are actually advances in engineering, not medicine. Many new cancer
treatments, for example, depend on nanotechnology to deliver drug doses
to targeted tumours, not the development of new drugs. Undergraduates
who have a bachelor's degree in engineering are highly recruited by
medical schools, especially those that are strong in research. You just
haven't been keeping up.

As for your absurd second question - there are too many to name. Try
Diamler, for one, or James Watt, or the Wright brothers, and on and on.
Eradicating polio is a wonderful achievement, but it only took 50 years.

I will gladly admit that engineers, in all their disciplines, have
done many great things for people. The road to the Industrial Age was
paved by engineers. But somehow you don't get the same feeling about
the man who invented the steam engine and a man who cured a childhood
disease.

That's because you succumb to putting emotion before reason. Rather like
TV soap operas.

William Clark
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