Jiang says medicine and sanitation developed because the nation-state willed science and technology toward growing populations needed for war.
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Semmelweis is used as evidence that nineteenth-century Vienna punished doctors whose truths threatened powerful professional reputations.
Jiang credits Islamic Golden Age mathematics, optics, surgery, hospitals, and universities as foundations that fed the European Renaissance.
Jiang wants education to become more like modern medicine: a rigorous system of protocols that still allows individualized feedback and improvement across demographics.
Jiang says many elderly leaders keep going because high office produces a different mentality, access to the world's best medicine, and an inner conviction that without them society would collapse.
Jiang says China staffs medicine with weaker students but compensates through years of mentorship, internship, and guided experience.
Jiang says the American medical system is bloated, expensive, parasitical, and unjust despite being staffed by top students.
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"So as you can see, because of the rise of the nation state, we had to kill more and more people in order to..."
"...and technology to grow the population. Okay? That's why we had medicine and sanitation, okay? These innovations happened because the nation state willed these..."
"analogy I like to you use is that you look at medicine about 20 years ago it very much was an art it was..."
"Yeah, that's a fantastic question. And we've never really reached this point in history where we've never had in history so many really old..."
"...drives them. Also look, they have access to the most advanced medicine in the world. And some of this has to be secret, right?..."
"...I think a lot of it is just the advance of medicine. Some of it is just their sense of mizzenik mission that they..."
"not realize how sorry go ahead sorry i'll make this point okay so i'm in china and the medical system is staffed by the..."
"best students in in the school and you compare that with the american system so you have a medical system which is bloated expensive..."
"So as part of this movement, I mean, you can read this, right? Sexual abuse was actually pretty common. So we have evidence to..."
"Okay? And so he launched an investigation as to what was happening, and he spent seven months, a long, long time, trying to figure..."
"We still use it today, exactly the same formula today. And so he tried this protocol, and it was a miracle, because after people..."
"But if we don't publish our findings, if we don't let the world know about this, more women are going to die in childbirth...."
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