IDF snipers aim at the heads of children, but sometimes they miss.
Well, think of all the new test patients for prosthetic design and human regeneration medicine!
I’m so sorry, it was in my head and it was one of those things that if I didn’t say I was going to explode. I am going to hell and deserve any down votes i receive.
It’s a morbid way of looking at it, but you’re not wrong. War has always been a big driver of medicine.
There’s a lot of caveats to that. It’s almost never civilian related casualties, stabilizing traumatic injury, and increasing combatant effective hours. A soldier missing a limb can’t fight anymore, no DoD funds for him, unless troop counts are predicted to fall below sustainable amounts and you desperately need a way to keep troops effective.
I disagree with the “it’s almost never civilian related casualties” bit, simply because of all the mine-created amputees, throughout the world.
That MUST drive some medical-innovation, even if it isn’t flashy.
( it is really sad to be arguing this, btw.
Humankind ought get a life. )
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I can’t wait to hear an in-depth story about this from national propaganda radio. Yeah right.
