The medicine of the past and the future seen from experience

Abstract

Medicine has evolved positively throughout my professional life. It is currently more decisive and respectful, and less invasive than a few decades ago. The proof of this is that life expectancy has increased and the general health of the population is clearly better. However, there seems to be some discrepancy between these objective data and the self-perception of health by a large part of the population. Various possible causes are pointed out, among which stands out the progressive technification of medicine at the cost, frequently, of a loss of humanistic values of the profession. From these premises, we ponder on possible actions aimed at alleviating this problem.