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To the Editor: Medical care contributed to improvements in life expectancy between 1960 and 2000, as reported by Cutler et al. (Aug. 31 issue).¹ However, when we take a longer look, it is striking how little medical care contributed to life expectancy during the full span of the 20th century. Between 1950 and 2000 (years that coincided with the explosion in medical technology in the United States), life expectancy increased by 8.8 years; however, it increased by 20.9 years from 1900 to 1950, years when medicine often had little to offer in the way of meaningful interventions.² Most of the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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