Humm, medical research isn't national, it is international. It is driven by people who want to increase their knowledge and understanding. Open heart surgery was pioneered in Canada, IVF in the UK, keyhole surgery in the UK & Germany, heart bypasses were pioneered in South Afrian by Christiaan Barnard, the first heart, lung and liver tranplant took place in the UK, the first face tranplant in France etc etc.
It could well be argued that socialised medicine provides a driver for ensuring costs are kept in check by discouraging waste so medicine needs to prove its worth. I know so many US friends who have loads of drugs thrown at them after miscarriage even 'though those dugs have little proven use in helping future pregnancies, while in the UK that just doesn't happen because there is an increasingly strong bais to evidence-based medicine. There are reasons that the Cochrane Collaboration is based in the UK and one reason is because our system of socialised medicine encourages doctors to discover and use the most effective remedies and practices.
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Date: 2010-10-25 08:44 pm (UTC)It could well be argued that socialised medicine provides a driver for ensuring costs are kept in check by discouraging waste so medicine needs to prove its worth. I know so many US friends who have loads of drugs thrown at them after miscarriage even 'though those dugs have little proven use in helping future pregnancies, while in the UK that just doesn't happen because there is an increasingly strong bais to evidence-based medicine. There are reasons that the Cochrane Collaboration is based in the UK and one reason is because our system of socialised medicine encourages doctors to discover and use the most effective remedies and practices.