"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Spending Our Little Brains Out: Via Dr. Crippen's Grand Rounds, linked below, comes this frightening prophecy:
The really scary thing about healthcare is that, even though it's already the world's largest industry, it's now growing at about twice the rate of world GDP. What that means is that in less than a century it will account for the whole shebang. Which means there will be no cash for anything else. Think about it: sex, violence, flame-grills...everything we've come to stand for will be entirely squeezed out.