Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn’t organised to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than… - Ivan Illich

The prestige of a puny national team in the medical Olympics is used to intensify a nationwide addiction to therapeutic relationships that are pathogenic on a level much deeper than mere medical vandalism. More health damage is caused by people's belief that they cannot cope with their illness unless they call on the doctor than doctors could ever cause by foisting their ministrations on people.

To hell with the future. It's a man-eating idol.

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.