The problem with the paradigm is that it drives spending on high-tech medicine up.

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In the Atlantic piece, I also discuss the increasing concern that modern high-tech medicine has overpromised and underdelivered.

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Hawkins, an engineer by training, remains an ardent believer in high-tech medicine.

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It uses high-tech medicine sparingly to treat the most serious conditions while employing nutrition, exercise, stress-reduction and other simple, low-cost (or free) interventions to foster long-term health and resilience.

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Despite its high-tech sheen, medicine looks a lot like some of the dinosaur industries that were upended by competition from unexpected sources: autos in the 1970s, for example, or mainframe computers in the 1980s.

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Dr. Ferlic proposed a surgical intervention that reflects precisely the high-tech ethos of contemporary American medicine.

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Ottawa University, 150 years old in August, long ago took the lead in the traditional specialities of law and medicine, and is now bidding for the high-tech market.

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