Physicians frustrated by their inability to cure the disease and fearing loss of hope in the patient too often offer aggressive treatment far beyond what is scientifically justified.
Rather than just focusing on GDP, over 40 different sets of criteria from health, education and civil society engagement have been measured to get a more rounded assessment of how countries are performing.
I like that idea for US college football stadiums, for instance you can have the Louisville Cardinal flower, the Texas Longstem, the Mississippi and the Lily of the Valley State.