will our ongoing advancements in medicine eventually cause us to contiually become sicker and sicker?

Question

typically if a species has some sort of negative mutation it would eventually be eliminated through natural selection. since we keep coming up with new treatments for these genetic disorders are we enabling our species to become weaker and more susceptible to illness?

Answer 1

I wonder about that myself sometimes because I saw a program a while back on the issue of the cost of healthcare. One of the things that it said in this program is that there is so much technology out there now and that some of it may actually be making us sicker and not better. They gave an example of some kind of diagnostic test for the heart that is still really new and they wondered about it as to what value it holds. It was a pretty interesting story.

Answer 2

yes it is true, medicines are susceptible to natural resistance, so while it may work on some people, it may not on other strands of viruses, therefore, those "stronger" strands replicate and hence, we have another epidemic, but the technology these days is limitless, and we will always develop new ways of medically advancing. Although there are medicaines etc that do harm, i feel that without them, we would be in a far worse position without them. i know i would be.