The Primacy of Medicine

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Below, Moshe Pritsker answers the second of our three questions.


Everything is cross-disciplinary today. New technologies developed in one area are very quickly adopted in other areas. Healthcare is a good example since every significant development in concepts or methods in any other field is inevitably to be tried in medicine.

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