Modern medicine - still the third leading cause of death

[John V]

Had a good sleep.

Still can't understand what the point of this could possibly be.

A joke maybe?

I hardly consider 250,000 deaths a year - and that's just in America - to be a joke.

Modern western medicine has increased life spans because it's really good at a few things:

- trauma care
- antibiotics
- certain vaccines

Other than that it's largely an industry that makes more money by keeping us sick, and it kills an awful lot of us.