Where do you see the future of medicine going in 20 years from now? In 20 years from now what will future of medicine be like?

I’m wondering in 20 years from now what will medicine be like?

I read some thing about gene editing?

3 hours ago, Moon99 said:

Where do you see the future of medicine going in 20 years from now? In 20 years from now what will future of medicine be like?

I’m wondering in 20 years from now what will medicine be like?

I read some thing about gene editing?

In the US, the way it's currently going, back to leeches.

On 1/11/2026 at 9:03 PM, KJW said:

In the US, the way it's currently going, back to leeches.

You make it sound like the US has the worst healthcare? It would not surprise me that Trump is making the healthcare worse in the US and cutting back on medical research.

I’m surprise the rich in the US wants terrible healthcare and not phoning Trump not to cut back on the healthcare and medical research.

3 hours ago, Moon99 said:

You make it sound like the US has the worst healthcare? It would not surprise me that Trump is making the healthcare worse in the US and cutting back on medical research.

The US has excellent healthcare. It has horrible healthcare access.

On 1/12/2026 at 3:03 AM, KJW said:

In the US, the way it's currently going, back to leeches.

Leeches are all those doctors, nurses, and drug manufacturers who demand huge bonuses for their services..

We have a scandal here involving doctors who were receiving.. 45 x (4500%) the minimum national wage.. in a public hospital (which is on the verge of bankruptcy).

"After years of mismanagement, the facility has accumulated USD 11 million in debt, yet several doctors continue to receive astronomical salaries there. Four specialists cost the hospital USD 2.8 million annually. One of them, as internet users have discovered, earns extra money privately by seeing patients in his office and online."

(currency converted)

3 hours ago, swansont said:

The US has excellent healthcare. It has horrible healthcare access.

That is a big driver of fairly high mortality in the USA vs other developed countries. However, the conventional wisdom was that if you are well off in the USA, you would have access to the best care in the world. There was a recent study (I think Papanicolas was the corresponding author) in NEJ that showed another aspect. Essentially they looked at mortality in the higher age bracket across nation along wealth quartiles. IIRC the wealthiest quartile in the US ended up having a survival rate that is comparable to the poorest quartile in northern and western Europe. So whatever is causing it, even assuming that there is access to better health care, it does not close the gap.

Or alternatively, the health system in western and northern Europe has components that is lacking int he US, even for the wealthiest.

And we haven't even addressed the issue that public health in the US is now at stake with anti-vaccination activists running the show.

I won’t live long enuf to see it, but I doubt that the US health care system is really going to make things better for the average citizen.

7 hours ago, Moon99 said:

I won’t live long enuf to see it, but I doubt that the US health care system is really going to make things better for the average citizen.

The Affordable Care Act cut the number of uninsured in half, which was a step in the right direction. The current disaster of an administration is undoing that, but is making the case for national insurance.