“To protect us against doctors there is no law against ignorance, no example of capital punishment. Doctors learn at our risk, they experiment and kill with sovereign impunity, in fact the doctor is the only one who may kill. They go further and make the patient responsible: they blame him who has succumbed.”
— Plinius Secundus, Naturalis Historiaz
”The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels of personal health. Medical nemesis is the negative feedback of asocial organization that set out to improve and equalize the opportunity for each man to cope in autonomy and ended by destroying it.”
https://jech.bmj.com/content/57/12/919
https://jech.bmj.com/content/57/12/919
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