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Historical medical and surgical advances produce enormous health and societal benefits.
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Highlights benefits of thoracic surgical innovation; extends historical perspective to guide future research and cautious clinical adoption.
Technical innovations and medical progress derived from this technology has produced enormous health and societal benefits. Millions of people today, including some readers of this article, are alive owing to these developments. The vast majority of people currently living owe their health to technology; whether from the ability to diagnose illness through radiographs and the work of Madame Curie, cure infection via antibiotics, treat injury and disease using surgery, medications and chemotherapy or the ability to avoid illness altogether, through the development of vaccines.
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González-Rivas et al. (2017) reported a review. Historical medical and surgical advances, including antibiotics, vaccines, and surgical techniques, have produced enormous health and societal benefits.
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