Hip replacements? Cataract surgery? Disfigurements (cosmetic surgery)? - just off the top of my head. My own mother had "cosmetic" surgeries to re-set her toes which had been deformed by decades of fashionable shoes, and to remove varicose veins which are painful. Occasionally one reads about someone's hearing, sight, or power of speech being restored also.
Maybe only a few things, but still affecting millions, if not tens of millions of people.
I also think that medicine is a victim of its own success, in two ways.
One, how many funerals of people in their thirties to fifties does the average person go to, these days, compared to say the 1920s? It's hard to see things that don't happen.
Two, success breeds hubris which breeds a sense of being right whatever the evidence may say.
Maybe only a few things, but still affecting millions, if not tens of millions of people.
I also think that medicine is a victim of its own success, in two ways.
One, how many funerals of people in their thirties to fifties does the average person go to, these days, compared to say the 1920s? It's hard to see things that don't happen.
Two, success breeds hubris which breeds a sense of being right whatever the evidence may say.