I think we were fooled by penicillin. When penicillin was discovered, in 1929, it suggested that treatment of disease could be simple—an injection that could miraculously cure a breathtaking range of infectious diseases. Maybe there’d be an injection for cancer and another one for heart disease. It made us believe that discovery was the only hard part. Execution would be easy.
by Atul Gawande, The New Yorker (http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2010/06/gawande-stanford-speech.html)
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