When was the last time you heard of a true cure? Not a treatment plan, not symptom management, but a genuine cure for a disease? They are rare and that fact alone should give us pause.
In my research for The Human Trial, I uncovered a troubling pattern. Modern medicine often pours resources into treatments that keep us stable rather than into cures that could make us whole. Treatments create ongoing revenue streams. Cures end them.
This isn’t to say the doctors who work tirelessly to help us are anything less than devoted. But the system in which they are trained, funded, and employed rewards management, not resolution. Medical education, research priorities, and even the approval of drugs all flow through a funnel shaped by money, power, and control.
It’s a reality that inspired the story behind The Human Trial a fictional exploration of what might happen if suppressed science and groundbreaking discoveries came to light. What if the science for cures already exists? What if we’ve simply chosen not to look at it?
The cost of cures isn’t measured only in dollars. It’s measured in lost years, lost potential, and lost lives. It’s measured in families stretched thin caring for loved ones who might otherwise be healed.
Maybe it’s time we stop accepting treatments as the best we can hope for and start asking why cures aren’t the goal.