A remarkable video, I'm so glad I watched it. I can't explain why except to say you'll know after you watch it.
One thing that struck me was the mention of what I call the "destructive" paradigm of medicine.
If we look at most current medical procedures, they are barbaric. Chopping stuff mainly.
How do you fix a fissure in the anus? LIS: Chop a bit of the sphincter and hope it heals back.
How do you fix GERD? Make a knot in the esophagus.
How do you fix Crohns? Chop the bowel and open a hole in the stomack .
Dont get me wrong, I applaud all the stuff current medicine helps with. And I'm far from a radical anti medicine . .
But those things make me think that in 500 years, people will turn back and see these sort of procedures the same way we see now how our ancestors treated bacterial infections: intentional bleeding, using leeches and other similar medieval procedures.
We as a society should start puahibg for more constructive or generative medicine. As the Guy in the video says, fixing the problem instead of alleviating the symptom.
One has to agree with your view, at least partially. I've heard it said that surgeons are akin to carpenters—some are skilled craftsmen who craft fine furniture, others like builders whose skills are pretty much limited to joining bits of 2x4s but none of whom know the underlying mechanism of how trees grow or how they produce wood.
Nevertheless, with the fusion of modern chemistry, a refined understanding of biological processes, and advanced computing and specialist manufacturing techniques (micro sensors etc.) we're just now beginning to see the end of some of the 'chopping'—or at least how in the future we might end it.
I've been around for quite some decades so I'm unlikely to benefit from any new technique—they being too immature for deployment—but on current evidence those who are around in 50+ years are very likely to do so.
A: Rectal Glyceryl trinitrate
How do you fix GERD?
A: For the majority of people weight loss and dietary changes will do the job
How do you fix Crohns?
A: You don’t ’fix’ Crohn’s per se as there is no cure. But most people with Crohn’s can be have their disease managed well with -mab medications
In all those conditions you named surgical management is very much at the end of the list and for a minority of patients who do not respond to the above. The first line management in all of these conditions very much does look at ‘fixing the problem’ contrary to what your espousing.