Insulin

“Call insulin, then, a precious but flawed miracle. Herein lies a central paradox of assessing remarkable health care interventions: in proportion to which they offer incredible benefits in certain regards, medical technologies often make life more onerous or complicated in other regards. We typically purchase enhanced control in one realm at the expense of diminished control in another. Examples of this phenomenon of “problem exchange” abound in technologically sophisticated hospitals, including the children’s hospital in which I work.” [Examples]