…is today’s plastic surgery, pharmaceutical prescriptions, the way we take blood, the way we deliver babies, our understanding of the cell, the way we build our hospitals, the way we train future physicians…
Yes, those doctors felt about bloodletting the way we feel about the current fixtures in medicine and health care.
So if we assume that future generations will look back on today’s practices with bewilderment (as is the right of those who follow us)…let’s imagine the sorts of things they’ll say.
And then, once we’ve imagined them and written them down, let’s work on changing those things right now.
If we can commit to this practice in every area of medicine, then tomorrow’s Doctors and patients will have nothing to say except…Thank you.
Thank you for refusing to settle. Thank you for continually building the impossible to imagine world we live in now.