>        How can you say that the reason we live so long is due to medical
>technology if the rest of what you posted is true?

because health and the science of hiding symptoms  and postponing death are
2 opposite things.
conditions of living being what they are without medical technology we will
have a genocide. I  myself will not be here to start with.
now being alive doesn't made me healthy ,i had to change drastically the
conditions of living that i inherited and reproduced .
Medical technology have been in the way of me taking responsability ( it is
so easy to take a pill )

without medical technology humans have been able to live healthy in old age
because they had to . Peoples now can afford to live unhealthy life because
we have good mechanics to fix ( on the surface ) the damage and prolong the
necessary outcome.

jean-claude

 Maybe I misunderstood?
>        It appears that diet and avoiding injury are the important factors
in a
>human's health and not what drug or surgery(medical technology) they are or
>have used.


>        I could see medical technology lengthening ones life if used for
critical
>care to the severely injured but in no way, shape, or form can the use of
>drugs or surgery improve the health of those with chronic conditions.
>
>Dave