Expanding on Health Topic

Here few things that I will take away from learning about the health in Germany:

-Germany made many new discoveries in the earlier years
Example: William Harvey discovered blood circulation. He did this by sticking himself with different needles and then studying his body's blood circulation.

-I found that it was quite ironic that Germany adopted universal health care so long ago and here in America we are still in the process of getting universal health care.

-In the 20th century there were a lot of discoveries, but most of them were bad discoveries.
Bad Example: The Nazi's "tested" drugs on the Jews. However, this testing really wasn't testing because it killed the Jews. The Nazi's also created a drug similar to cocaine. This drug was then given to the soldiers that were fighting. Another example of Germany's medical advancement in the 20th century would have to be their discovery of steroids. It is said that just about all Germans that won medals in the Olympics were on steroids. (eleven out of 13 medals were won by Germans) Back in the day this might have been acceptable, but today it is not. A prime example of this is Lance Armstrong who recently got stripped of all his Tour De France wins.


Good Example: Most of the discoveries in the 20th century were bad, but not all of them. An example of this was the discovery of Bayer in 1863. Bayer is still sold today which means this was a great discovery.