Stanford University Medical Center

ADVISORY/Stanford Medicine Examines War's Impact on Medical Care

Published in Lab Law Weekly, July 6th, 2007

Is war good for health' In the face of the Iraq war casualties, the question seems ludicrous. Yet conventional wisdom has long assumed that war advances medicine. The summer issue of Stanford Medicine magazine explores this question in a special report on war's impact on medicine and health.

The report's lead story maintains that war has helped medicine in at least a few instances, for example, hastening the mass-production of antibiotics and spurring improvements in emergency medicine. Yet when Philip Pizzo, MD, dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine, takes an accounting of war's contributions in his letter to readers, he argues, "War is good for...

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