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The primary challenge is not merely the acquisition of new knowledge or technological advancement, but the preservation of the wisdom necessary to apply these capabilities judiciously.
We have created what amounts to a diagnostic-industrial-government complex - a self-reinforcing system in which everyone benefits from more diagnoses except the patients.