As we develop more solutions to today's health problems, we interfere with the process of survival of the fittest, reducing the quality of the gene pool. At some point in the future, the pace of drug development might not be able to keep up, and more people will die than we can save with drugs. Has anybody ever calculated when this might be?
2006-11-08 12:13:30 · 8 answers · asked by Ste 2 in Health ➔ Other - Health
It seems to be an ongoing battle. As mankind evolves, so do our skills against fighting illness. But as we get better at making drugs to fight these bugs the bugs are fighting back and getting more resistant until we reach a point (sometime soon, i feel) where we are going to have to depend on our immune system - like we did wayyyyyyy back in the day!
2006-11-08 12:54:17 · answer #1 · answered by minitotz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The field of Medicine is not concerned with wellness - it provides band-aid solutions for illness, rather than promoting wellness. Pharmaceutical companies support their perpetual busine$$ by upsetting the natural flow of the body and offering products with known side-effects (and somehow there's always a pill for that side-effect...and thus the slippery slope begins). Medical practictioners typically prescribe drugs for a living. And incidentally, contribute to the culling of the herd.
As long as people expect a magic pill, there will always be one for them and the ensuing multiple health problems which maintain the drug industry. Patients and Doctors "feed" each other in this symbiotic dance.
Until people **truly take ownership of their own health and lifestyles**, there will always be drug$$$$ ad nauseum
2006-11-08 13:49:03 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Registered Nurse here; It's already happening, for at this moment our nation is being swept with a mutated from of Staph, abbreviated MRSA=Methecillen Resistant Staphylococcus Aurea's. Currently we only have two antibiotics on the market that will kill this strain of staph. One is vancomycin, the other is Zyvox. Believe me drug companies and scientist are scrambling to discovers new antibiotics to combat this gram positive strain of Staphylococcus.
2006-11-08 12:18:42 · answer #3 · answered by gettyupgo59 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Never. All illnesses are natural and nature is always evolving. To invent/discover a panacea would, in all probability, bring an end to life on the planet.
2006-11-08 12:44:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Drugs will never stop saving man. currently the majority of drugs only mask the symptom.
2006-11-08 12:26:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no and I agree with you but have to ask also when will mankind quite killing ourselves with drugs period,(prescription or not)
2006-11-08 12:24:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
when mankind stops taking ill!
2006-11-08 12:17:23 · answer #7 · answered by notnot 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When we stop going to the doctor.....they bury their mistakes.
2006-11-08 15:40:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋