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Cawadias (1953) has said that "the history of medicine has shown that, whenever medicine has strayed from clinical observation, the result has been chaos, stagnation, and disaster."--British Medical Journal, Oct 8th, 1955, p.867 (Quoted in Clinical Medical Discoveries by Beddow Bayly)

"The basic mistake we're making with our health-care system now is that we regard it as just another business. And it's clearly not just another business. Patients, sick patients and worried patients, are not like ordinary consumers," said Relman. "Doctors ought to be incorruptible . That's the doctor's sacred obligation. They're being corrupted and undermined by this kind of salesmanship." --Media 2002

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."

"Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information and religions destroy spirituality...."--David Ellner  http://www.aidsmag.com/

"Unless we put medical freedom into the consitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship....The Consitution of this Republic shall make special provision for medical freedom as well as religious freedom." Benjamin Rush MD, signer of the Declaration of Independence