Quote by Ivan Illich
Effective health care depends on self-care this fact is currently

Effective health care depends on self-care this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery. – Ivan Illich

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The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discourages preventative health-care but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in the meantime as an acolyte to his doctor. He learns to depend on the physician in sickness and in health. He turns into a life-long patient. – Ivan Illich

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Medical
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The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts. – Ivan Illich

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Attitude
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Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service. – Barbara Castle

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Health has always been an important thing to me. I exercise and try to take care of myself, and drink a lot of water! And I push that to my kids so that they can carry on that same energy. – Doug E. Fresh

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