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Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't 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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Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals. — Ivan Illich

About Ivan Illich

Ivan Illich was a Sociologist from Austria (1926–2002).

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Ivan Illich lived from 1926 – 2002.
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