Cure all diseases - by Saloni Dattani and Works in Progress

Few people know how much medicine has progressed in their lifetimes. Fewer know how much faster it could be progressing.

This piece is featured in Issue 25 of Works in Progress. Subscribe today to get Issue 25, and an issue every two months after, delivered straight to your door. Medical innovation has transformed our lives, but hardly anyone realizes it. You can tell people that global life expectancy has doubled in a century and watch it fail to register – it just sounds like an abstract number, and numbers don’t convey how different life used to be. So let me describe it another way. If you collapsed with a heart attack in 1950, hardly anyone around you would know how to help. CPR wouldn’t be invented for…

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