Medicine has advanced towards increasingly sophisticated procedures, practised in increasingly urgent circumstances. This has required increasingly sophisticated equipment and improved qualification of those practising this medicine, with the inevitable consequence for society that operational costs have escalated. Obviously, in a well-designed health system, the savings provided by the patient's recovery should cancel out the cost of treatment. It is not for the medical community but for the politicians who are elected to take such decisions, to decide whether or not to invest.
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