haman10
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i suppose it's a "egg or chicken" kinda discussion . in a nation where there is no health , there is no wealth .That is true. In an economy, doctors are not wealth creators. They contribute to wealth creation of a society indirectly by keeping society physiologically healthy. But the ones at the forefront of wealth creation are farmers and engineers. Before industrial revolution, farmers were more important but nowadays it is engineers who make nations wealthy. In advanced countries wealth comes from STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. The policies supporting STEM are so strategic that rarely you see any debate to cut them down. The support for STEM is always strong at strategic level and uncompromising.
So in these advanced economies engineers are of a more critical importance than doctors, unless ofcourse you are a doctor like Michael Riordan of Gilead Sciences:
wealth doesn't bring about health but health can indeed make you wealthy . we've got an 80 million strong nation .
imagine this : a 40 year life expectancy , a very poor health care system where a simple bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae breakout kills 40% of the population .
you've gotta ask yourself : what was the cause of human being's rapid advancements in the past 200-300 years ?
engineering ?