On Medical Research and Transplants!!

Well, being an Optimist, I would certainly like for the Medical Community to put aside this rather defeatist attitude of resigning the afflicted to their fate that there are No Cures available, and Work on finding Cures for the different symptoms that manifest themselves, that is the one sure way to advance the medical field, which IMHO is quite stagnant in comparison to the rapid pace of advances that the Internet boom and the Computer Technology arena have made. I am a Computer Software Professional, and in the Software domain, yes there goes the saying that for the Software produced “There is always One more Bug!” but surface a bug and the bugs do get fixed and the Software development process moves forward in great leaps and bounds. Such a defeatist attitude that you find from the Medical professionals that there is No Cure you will not find in the Software development professionals, and by God how has the Computer revolution alleviated the pace of developments in the Medical field, from the decoding of the Genomes, to speeding up the Drug Discovery processes all now possible thanks to Computers!

What have we engineers not invented and developed for these medicos? – From CT Scanners to MRI machines to now Robotics applied to Surgery!! And how do they treat us?? Like individuals who are like the Cheap gadgets … not worth repairing if broken just TRANSPLANT an Organ!!! Look at the Kidney afflictions … till today there are NO Remedies!! The medicos just let one afflicted with a Kidney condition to deteriorate all the way down to such a horrendous thing called “Dialysis” down to just transplanting the whole Kidney!!

Just the way we treat the cheap gadgets that we build at a subsidised price … not worth the cost of repairing and fixing … just throw out the kidney like a cheap gadget and transplant it! So it is with this same Don’t Fix but Replace attitude that such convoluted medical research is on-going from Stem Cells to synthesize new body parts and don’t fix but just replace with new synthesized body parts and organs … This is nothing but a DON’T fix but just replace slothful paradigm like each Human Individual is such an expendable cheap gadget!!

What the Medico’s need to come up with is a generic across the board “Paradigm for Cure” just like we Software Engineers have developed — “The Agile Methodologies” and that can then be applied to solve and cure the various afflictions. Afterall it is just ONE Human Body System that we are dealing with, and Humanity has been aound for long enough now and it is about high time these Medico’s need to understand the Human Body System Fully !!

Take Mental Illness for the other end of the spectrum — The fault is that people don’t realise that what Mental Illness is really just like the Kidney affliction … but an affliction of the Brain!!
Kidney conditions manifest with worst case Kidney transplants … so maybe the medicos will come up with the worst case scenario of the Brain Transplants for the acute mental illness only if they can come to terms that it is an illness that afflicts the Brain … and since it is the Brain which is the central controller of Human Behaviour…. hence the manifestation of this Brain Illness is in the form of Behavioural Problems … Duh Uh???

Cheerio!!

Brian Antao, Ph.D. (Vanderbilt University)

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