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DFW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-11 05:58 AM
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If the field of medicine had had its own Steve Jobs
Then the Steve Jobs who passed yesterday might still be with us.

(Not that our Congressional Republicans would ever consider funding such an individual....)
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Cool Logic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-11 07:53 AM
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1. Steve Jobs (Apple) wasn't funded by Congressional Republicans and...
it didn't stifle his creativity one bit.
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canetoad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-11 07:55 AM
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2. You're a glutton for punishment!
Doesn't America have enough medical entrepreneurs?
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Nye Bevan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-11 08:07 AM
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3. There are plenty of Steve Jobs in medicine.
Why do you think a diagnosis of AIDS is no longer a death sentence?
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canetoad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-11 08:25 AM
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4. New iPhones come out....what?
Every 18 months for 5 years?

Took twenty-odd years to get to where we are with AIDS medicine. Not a valid or complimentary comparison.
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Nye Bevan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-11 08:48 AM
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6. Developing AIDS treatments is a lot harder than improving a cellphone (nt)
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ProdigalJunkMail Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-11 08:50 AM
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7. you think that the complexities of biology
might just be a tad deeper than the complexities of a fucking computer or phone?

you're right. it is not a valid comparison but for totally different reasons than you suppose.

sP
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Occupied1 Donating Member (137 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-11 08:26 AM
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5. ...Meds would still be overpriced with components made in china
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