We are using a 1970s payment system to pay for 21st century medicine.

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The current one-size-fits-all approach to drugs will give way to this laserlike approach and make today's methods seem as outmoded as 19th-century medicine.

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Microbiologist at the University of Birmingham, Prof Laura Piddock, told BBC's Newsnight that antibiotics are miracle drugs which underpin all areas of 21st Century medicine.

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Frighteningly lethal and insidiously efficient, these bacteria replicate and mutate prodigiously, turning out variants that elude most of the chemical weapons--antibiotics--that medicine has invented over the past century.

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Indeed, the unsleeping doctor would have had to go all the way back to Galen, the ancient Roman physician whose teachings had dominated medicine until Galileo had challenged him a century before.

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And osteopathic medicine has a certain disreputable tinge going back a century when osteopaths believed all disease sprang from the spine or the skeletal system.

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So you'd probably find a 17th century doctor quite at home with the clinical examination side of medicine as it stands today, but of course all the diagnostic tests would be considered as witchcraft.

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The broader concept of patient-centered care first gained widespread notice as a result of a 2001 Institute of Medicine report calling it one of six core goals of a 21st-century health care system.

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"Dr. Koop was not only a pioneering pediatric surgeon but also one of the most courageous and passionate public health advocates of the past century, " said Wiley W. Souba, dean of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.

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Ibn Sina, author of Canon of Medicine, a medical textbook used all the way up to the 17th century, and Ibn Rushd, another Muslim polymath, were two of many polymath scholars found frequently throughout the Muslim world during this time period.

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The result is ASC will never be allowed into medicine while the fools wait for embryonic treatments which will take the rest of this century if ever.

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In the early twentieth century, you needed only a high-school diploma and a one-year medical degree to practice medicine.

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