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by KidComputer 328 days ago
> Move fast and break things is why we have progressed from chopping off people's limbs and giving them cocaine to now.

This is just false. Healthcare does not move fast.

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Anaesthetics in the form of ether went from official invention to worldwide use (in wealthy countries) in less than a decade. Many other medical inventions followed suit.

"The FDA moves slowly." Is a sentence I would agree with

That’s why people can’t get experimental drugs or therapies.
Not anymore, but people were just doing whatever like 100 years ago.