Today’s interesting fact has to do with Medicine.

People get upset with their physicians for not being able to instantly diagnose their ailments.

Recent studies have suggested that physicians diagnose and perscribe the correct treatment only about 30% of the time, and this often means multiple visits before you get the correct treatement.

Often patients get better dispite their treatments.

One reason this occurs, is that many different ailments have the same symptoms and doctors need to rule out the most common illnesses before they try to cure the less common ones.

Still we are much better off than we were less than 100 years ago.

A recent historical documentry pointed out that the practice of medicine only stopped killing more patients than it cured in around 1920.

The percentage is much better now, but a quick search hasn't been able to find the actual percentage medicine still kills.