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To the Editor,

From Averroes to Hippocrates and through Galen, Fleming or C. Venter, the history of medicine has been written as a constant stream of nonstop improvement on knowledge and clinical practice. Scientific production had not yet seen the momentum that we currently observe in the present era. With the astonishing amount of new data published in papers, research, and meta-analyses, new developments continue to arrive. However, we simultaneously face new challenges in addition to new problems demanding new solutions. Current medicine, in response to a desire for a longer life expectancy, treats more people with better care but also at a much higher cost, making many of the treatments difficult to afford and placing significant pressure on many National Health Care systems around the world. Loss et al.⁽⁾ show us this reality and then analyzes what we should be doing in this regard.

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