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Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isnt organized to serv

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isnt organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals. – Ivan Illich

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

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