I&#x27;m only half agreeing with you. Yes, improvements in medicine before 1920 were dramatic. Antibiotics and vaccines work wonders, making once-deadly diseases benign (e.g. pneumonia) or eradicated (e.g. smallpox).<p>But more recent improvements in healtcare aren&#x27;t just trivial stuff either. The five-year survival rates for childhood leukemia, for instance, have been on a steady increase from 40% to 80% since 1970. Recent monoclonal antibody therapies against inflammation&#x2F;autoimmune diseases have provided actually revolutionary changes in the health situation of many.<p>Going from chronic pain and having a hard time functioning at school&#x2F;work, to living a relatively normal life, is a huge thing. But it&#x27;s not captured by life expectancies.