Survival Medicine

With modern medicine we can fix many more problems than before. Do you think that the statement "modern medicine has nullified "survival of the fittest" or "natural selection" ?

Yes it has.

With modern medicine and intervention, within the human species today, even the not-so-fit survive. Indeed. it could be said that the not-so-fit today produce more offspring than the fit.

Of course you can argue the definition of the word "fit" for ever, but realistically, we most definitely have altered the natural path of evolution. With our modern technology we have sent extinction rates sky rocketing.

Natural selection no longer applies. Any "selection" today is most unnatural.

2009-04-23 14:00:28 by wilderthanme

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If you were in a life-or-death situation what medicine would you want? Would Advil be the best choice???

Penicillin or asprin.

2007-09-17 16:19:57 by Stargirl

Price: $20.00

An elderly person is having severe agonising chest pain for the first time which becomes crucial dying pain within a minutes- with perspiration,nausea-vomiting,giddiness,and reffered pain in shoulder as well neck & back of chest !He/She is all alone and have no strength for grabing the phone to call some one to help !And has no idea of medicine and in fact nothing is available for him to assist in such a life threatning emergency! What should he/she do at once for to survive ? That too within 4 minutes time ? Can any one say with why and what for ?

If he / she cannot even grab the phone, how would they do anything else to save themself?

Honestly you would not be able to do anything if you could not even pick up the phone.

2007-04-13 13:49:35 by Dr.D.C.Mehta-Jamnagar

Price: $25.00

Is medicine for those who need it or those who can afford it. Should a person who has smoked for most of their lives get preferential treatment over a poorer person just because they can afford it. Should people who become Overweight buy medical treatment and waste our resources, but thats okay because they can pay for it. So my question is, is medication for our survival or our conveniency?

I'm sure the majority take it for survival. I don't think that people get medication & pay for it, or not, just because its "convenient". Unless their selling it, or taking it like drugs. 2ndly- healthcare is what it is. You get what you pay for, and most of the times not. It's not always about whether your poor or wealthy, a lot of it has to do with your insurance.

2008-11-12 13:18:17 by emperorkorei191

Not really. I've heard this argument before, but the point that is missed is that humans have evolved to use culture to adapt to their environment.

For example, instead of evolving bigger teeth, chambered stomachs to accomodate eating grains, we use mills and fire (cooking) to process food we would not have otherwise been able to eat, instead of evolving fur and blubber, we make clothes, etc.

So no, this is part of human evolution.

wl

2007-12-06 12:40:41 by The Revolutionary