Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think modern societies have to ask a very basic question: What strategies buy the most health for people? Doctors can do so many marvelous things now. They can keep a corpse alive, almost.
If you look at healthcare today, it's all about disease. It's not about understanding wellness at all.
Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.
The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.
Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.
As I've met clinicians in my travels, time after time I've been inspired to hear why people went into medicine: to apply their way-above-average minds (and hearts) to work that's beyond most people's capacity, and perhaps save a few lives.
The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.
If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles.
Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.