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Faster, yes, more efficient - not sure and very difficult to measure. We also got a lot more diversity and resistance to measures.

I find the view that recreating modern medicine being clearly easy with the internet dubious. Even more, we did create the internet while having medicine before, not the other way around. Without modern medicine we might not have any internet to start with as the struggle with human diseases and illness might have led to very different time attribution of efforts.

Also, the quote is for all of medicine, not just modern.




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