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The Best Anchor

  Medicine in all its glory, no matter the tech or bad eggs, is still about restoring a man’s life, his body and mind, to its normal state. Slowly but surely, medical doctors in all corners of the world are beginning to accept that just beyond the other members of the team they work within the hospital including the nurses and laboratory scientists, they have to deal with public opinion and political opinion, better put, court for favourable political will. But this is not about the forced, sometimes laborious, romance between medicine and bureaucrats, with its many failings and ugly smoothening around the edges of everything. This is about the evolution that is sure to charge medicine as we know it and what falls off and what continues to stand. Biased, but I think many parts of medicine will stand the first few waves of the many intrusions (do not read as insults). A part stands as king amongst the favoured survivors - basic clinical sciences. Pharmacology, Immunology, histopatho...