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Is there any reason why the medical world might not change? There are certainly important professors of medicine, politicians, regulatory bodies, groups of consumers, and even scientists who either disagree or are extremely uncomfortable with the vision of a technologically driven medical world as described in this book—despite the fact that any such vision is promoted and ratified by their equally important colleagues and friends. Some remain skeptical about the possibility that medicine will ever fundamentally alter. Others believe that the specter of fresh and frightening diseases will so overwhelm healthcare as to make any technological achievement immediately redundant. A number have beefs with a medical culture that is run on the basis of scientific expertise, even when it promises to be economically effective. If science is to make reasonable headway in resculpting medicine for the better, all these malcontents will have to be addressed.

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Wyke, A. (1997). Against Change. In: 21st-Century Miracle Medicine. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3466-6_14

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