Essay On Breakthroughs In Medicine

I chose to talk about topic six, breakthroughs in medicine. I chose this topic because not only does this affect me, it also greatly affects everyone else in the world. We can do amazing things now with our new medicine and technology. We can do almost impossible things, but there is a fine line between what is right and what is wrong. Some people might not think that there is anything wrong with what we are doing in the medical field. I believe that most of what we are doing is good and helpful, but some of the things we do now are unethical to me. My first thought when I hear breakthroughs in the medical field is that we have greatly increased our life spans and we have also gained knowledge on what is healthy and what is unhealthy to eat. My second thought is that we can make peoples lives better with the technology we now possess. My last thought isn’t as good as the two before it. My last thought is to all the lives of unborn children that are being aborted because we …show more content…
The first thing that came to my mind was that video we watched of that little boy who didn’t have any hands. This little boy was very strong and always humble. Thirty years ago we wouldn’t be able to do anything about this little boy not having hands, but since we live in such an amazing time, doctors we able to preform a surgery to give him working hands. I think that is incredible. Being able to attach hands on a person who was born without hands. This wasn’t easy though. The surgery took several hours and there was a still a chance that it wasn’t going to work. Just being able to attach all of the ligaments, veins, and muscles is crazy, but actually giving this little boy hands that work seemed almost impossible to me. He might not be able to do everything that we are able to do, but at least he has two of his own hands that he can use. Imagine what will be able to do in another thirty years because of our advancing