[yourMadness]

Modern medicine has some aspects that are miraculously good and it is easy to fall into the trap of thinking that those are representative for all of medicine. It's a kind of halo effect bias.

In my opinion the most amazing thing still is antibiotics (and vaccination). Treatmeant of war/vehicle/sports injuries taking the second place (including anesthetics). Both can take people from a path of sure death within hours or days to often complete recovery within weeks or months.

If that is the performance expectation of the general public for all of medicine, then it certainly is overrated.

[m0zg]

As someone who has had some less-acute sports injuries, I'd also break the injuries down into "shit's really fucked up" and "you could conceivably walk it off" categories. The former, modern US medicine excels at. The latter, I'm not sure the doctors are even trained to treat something less acute and not requiring expensive surgery. In fact, I strongly suspect they often prescribe a surgery anyway, just to make a buck. I had to decline a surgery once.

[pvaldes]

> Modern medicine has some aspects that are miraculously good... like antibiothics and injuries treatment

Not to mention having all valuable poisons in the planet in a nice packed, chemically pure, split in comfortable monodose capsules, accurately measured and checked for 10 years before enter in your body, packed guaranteeing non posterior adulteration as long as the plastic seal is not broken, extensively documented in several languages and available at less than ten minutes away from your home. This is probably the biggest bonus from the real medicine.