David Fajgenbaum: Santa Claus theory of civilization

David Fajgenbaum, Associate Professor of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, shared on X:

“Early on in my life I always thought there was ‘they’ looking for cures for all diseases.

Unfortunately I was wrong.

In my book I call it the Santa Claus theory of civilization: that for every problem in the world, there are surely people working diligently—in workshops near and far, with powers both practical and magical—to solve it. Or perhaps they’ve already solved it.

But then I realized I needed to get involved in the fight.

Hope cannot be a passive concept. It’s a choice and a force; hoping for something takes more than casting out a wish to the universe and waiting for it to occur.

Hope should inspire action. And when it does inspire action in medicine and science, that hope can become a reality, beyond your wildest dreams.

That’s why we created Every Cure to look across all drugs and all disease to ensure that all FDA-approved medicines can treat every disease and every patient possible.

What is the problem that you’d like to create a ‘they’ to solve?”

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