While it's arguable that there haven't many major advancements in surgical techniques since 1986 aside from a few notable exceptions, medical diagnostic tools have seen significant improvement and now allow us to diagnose many life threatening diseases long before the become incurable.
Our ability to catch diseases is almost as, if not more, important than our ability to cure them and this ability has increased manifold in the past thirty years.
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While it's arguable that there haven't many major advancements in surgical techniques since 1986 aside from a few notable exceptions, medical diagnostic tools have seen significant improvement and now allow us to diagnose many life threatening diseases long before the become incurable.
Our ability to catch diseases is almost as, if not more, important than our ability to cure them and this ability has increased manifold in the past thirty years.