it's fun, to think of what practices today will seem barbaric or primitive in the future.
surely all "modern medicine" will fall into that category.
surely all "modern medicine" will fall into that category.
I suspect that in the future there will be a few "boil water" or "wash your hands" type lessons learned that will affect how we do medicine that aren't dependent on futuristic technology.
Of course that's ignoring that there is a lot of medicine that obviously does work and is great. No one is going to dispute that antibiotics are literally the greatest thing ever, or that insulin saves tons of diabetics, or that cancer treatment has saved a lot of lives. On the other hand some things we do are quite horrible, like keeping old people alive long past the point it's worth it. Or not cryogenically preserving everyone because it's "weird".
As I recall, you could boil down medical progress up to the publication date as "discovery of germs" as in "washing hands," "cleaning things," "vaccination," "isolate people with plague from the well" and "don't drink water you pooped in" -and the discovery of anesthesia, which made complex surgery possible. I'd say antibiotics is the main further improvement.