The current chronic disease is the result of medical development! In the past, people died before diseases developed into chronic diseases, so there were not so many chronic diseases. Many geriatric diseases are also the result of the development of medicine, because medicine can make people live to be old, and geriatric diseases only exist when people are old. People's expectations are changing. In the past, my grandparents' attitude towards doctors' medicine was a matter of life and death, but when my generation had a high demand for medicine. That's why you asked.
Cancer, AIDS, mental illness, etc. It is the goal that modern medicine strives to overcome. It sounds like our medicine has been developed. However, many people who often go to the hospital may find that one of them or their relatives is either very serious or can't be cured, and the cause can't be found, from county hospitals to specialized hospitals in the capital. The patient first went to the hospital for various examinations and received antibiotics to reduce inflammation. All kinds of tossing, he still didn't find the reason. We often hear about various intractable diseases in medicine. According to this estimate, almost 80% of diseases should be classified as incurable diseases, and 20% of diseases that can be diagnosed and cured should be classified as non-incurable diseases.
When developed medicine encounters incurable "incurable diseases" in reality, it really disappoints hospitals, medicine and doctors. This is why many people still use superstition to treat diseases. At least superstition can bring psychological comfort to patients, and the disappointment of hospitals to patients makes patients feel more lost and panic. You make it sound as if you can cure colds and fever now. I have heard a saying that no matter how powerful the medicine is, it is just to help people cheat in gambling with death. After all, cheating is cheating, and the only thing that is certain to happen forever is death. When you talk about high blood pressure and diabetes, you don't simply take medicine to get rid of the disease or reduce something. It is rooted in every cell and existed before people were born, waiting for the right time to show it. Now the progress of medicine can only delay it, and better delay it. Tell me, how advanced can medicine be to get rid of it from every cell?