Quote by Ivan Illich
The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discour

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

Other quotes by Ivan Illich

Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying… Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die. – Ivan Illich

Category:
diet
Read Quote

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

Category:
Attitude
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Medical
category

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis. – Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.

Category:
Medical

Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research. – Ike Skelton

Category:
Medical

Doctors are just the same as lawyers the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. – Anton Chekhov

Category:
Medical

They certainly give very strange names to diseases. – Plato

Category:
Medical

Random Quotes

You have the dreams that you want, and then you have to do other jobs until you can get to that dream. – Channing Tatum

Category:
Dreams

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. – Eric Hoffer

Category:
Faith

Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun. – Ziggy Marley

Category:
Religion

Yeah, its risky, but no more risky than driving a car. – Cory Lidle

Category:
car