After 40 years of working as psychiatrist and researcher, I cannot answer this question.
Toshi Furukawa
Oncology has made impressive progress since the 1970’s. Et tu, clinical psychology?
Joar Øveraas Halvorsen
Few people are aware of how much progress has been made against cancers.
Leukemia is probably the most striking example.
Before the 1970s, most children affected by leukemia would soon die from it.
Now, most children in rich countries survive.
ourworldindata.org/childhood-le...
Saloni
Cancer wasn't quite a literal death sentence like HIV was, but you had a barely coin flip chance of making it across the board 5 years, and a whole lot of different kinds that were close to a death sentence in 1980 that are extremely treatable today
Mike Black
Don’t think folks understand what quality of care 80s healthcare was. Then there’s the environmental toxins, the food (the food/coffee/beer renaissance did not take place until 2010-ish, Italian roast espresso is considered ritzy in White Collar). Material quality post oil crisis was awful.
Tony Stark
You would much much much much rather be a median American today, or even a bottom-quartile American, than in the 1980s. It's not even a close call. The standard of material prosperity is so much higher now that it can be hard to even make the comparison.
