Quote by Ivan Illich
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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Health
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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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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

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Ive always enjoyed poor health. – Taylor Caldwell

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People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well. – Bebe Neuwirth

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And what were doing in Ohio is were moving from a basic manufacturing economy to one thats diversified, including energy and health care and agriculture and IT. – John Kasich

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It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight. – Kate Smith

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