That said, we can do better. A recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study showed that the incidence of food borne illness may be twice as high as previously believed. This is not cause for immediate panic or alarm. But it is a warning to us all to look at ways to improve food safety. Our magnificent health care system is saving lives that would have been lost a just a short time ago.
Cancer patients survive.
Persons with HIV infections live. Persons with failing organs now get transplants and live. The elderly live longer because they receive successful treatments for conditions that previously would have been fatal. Infants and young children who may have perished in an earlier time are now brought along by a variety of medical miracles. All of this success, however, comes with a caution flag.