26 February 2016
Three Reasons We Appear to Be Sicker Now Than Before
People my age seem to have more afflictions than I remember
my parents’ generation suffered from.
There are at least three reasons I have this impression:
1)
Medical diagnosis methods and technology are
vastly improved. There are many more
illness conditions nowadays, although it may be that we have just identified
more of them.
2)
Communications have much expanded our personal
awareness of the afflictions of our fellow human beings; in days past we were
just not cognizant of how badly off the rest of humanity was.
3)
All of us are living much longer than our
predecessors. Because we are older, we
experience many illnesses that our predecessors never lived long enough to
encounter.
Would we trade longer lifetimes for fewer illnesses? As long as our faith in the advances of
science lasts, I guess not.
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