After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

Chuck Palahniuk

Stichwörter: life medicine waiting disease palahniuk choke doctors medical-training physicians

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Until fairly recently, every family had a cornucopia of favorite home remedies--plants and household items that could be prepared to treat minor medical emergencies, or to prevent a common ailment becoming something much more serious. Most households had someone with a little understanding of home cures, and when knowledge fell short, or more serious illness took hold, the family physician or village healer would be called in for a consultation, and a treatment would be agreed upon. In those days we took personal responsibility for our health--we took steps to prevent illness and were more aware of our bodies and of changes in them. And when illness struck, we frequently had the personal means to remedy it. More often than not, the treatment could be found in the garden or the larder. In the middle of the twentieth century we began to change our outlook. The advent of modern medicine, together with its many miracles, also led to a much greater dependency on our physicians and to an increasingly stretched healthcare system. The growth of the pharmaceutical industry has meant that there are indeed "cures" for most symptoms, and we have become accustomed to putting our health in the hands of someone else, and to purchasing products that make us feel good. Somewhere along the line we began to believe that technology was in some way superior to what was natural, and so we willingly gave up control of even minor health problems.

Karen Sullivan

Stichwörter: health medicine health-care physicians natural-remedies pharmeceutical-industry

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I don't like people much, and I like doctors even less.

Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode Guide Team

Stichwörter: medicine physicians interpersonal-skills

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