Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organised to serve h…

Ivan Illich
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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 it heals. ✨ Medical Nemesis. Book by Ivan Illich, 1976.
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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 it heals. ✨ Medical Nemesis. Book by Ivan Illich, 1976.

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