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moomoo11 3 days ago

Move fast and break things is why we have progressed from chopping off people's limbs and giving them cocaine to now.

And healthcare is still far from perfect.

Imagine what healthcare in 2500 will be like.

krapp 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

>Move fast and break things is why we have progressed from chopping off people's limbs and giving them cocaine to now

No it wasn't. The "move fast and break things" people were selling snake oil and alchemy while the actual science progressed slowly and deliberately, and the regulations around the latter were often written in the blood carelessly shed by the former.

KidComputer 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> Move fast and break things is why we have progressed from chopping off people's limbs and giving them cocaine to now.

This is just false. Healthcare does not move fast.

y-curious 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Anaesthetics in the form of ether went from official invention to worldwide use (in wealthy countries) in less than a decade. Many other medical inventions followed suit.

"The FDA moves slowly." Is a sentence I would agree with

moomoo11 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That’s why people can’t get experimental drugs or therapies.

BobbyJo 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Not anymore, but people were just doing whatever like 100 years ago.