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Health Care: Diseases for sale

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Prof BM Hegde | 10/05/2012 11:45 AM | 

Pharmaceutical companies get medical scientists to invent new diseases to sell their wares. This was going on in the past in a more dignified and quiet style, but now it has all come out in the open

This is a very strange world. Man is built to last as long as he lives. Diseases are only accidents. The medical establishment began thousands of years ago with altruistic motives of “curing rarely, comforting mostly, but consoling always.” It all began basically to allay anxiety, relieve the pain and suffering of mankind.
Lately, however, the medical establishment seems to have transformed ...


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