I think medicine needs to be put in research mode until it is definite that whatever applies will not cause harm to anyone in any way shape or form. Most especially it does not violate ethics in medicine (i.e. trading one life for another, cloning, playing god, etc.)
For now if technology is more feasible (again, does not cause harm) other than medicine (if medicine is not safely applicable in one's entire lifetime), then by all means use technology until something else better comes up.
Yiz
