The health care system has an eating disorder.

Physician Executive | April 1, 1994| | Copyright

The health care system is growing like a cancer, outstripping its own nutrient supply and robbing nutrients from other vital social organs. The defect may be a flaw in the immune system that should modulate and regulate cellular (component) growth necessary to maintain homeostasis. This model does not seem to lead to useful treatment strategies, however - at least the conventional, externally driven, high-tech therapies of modern oncology seem inappropriate. Infectious diseases, particularly viruses, have compatible and nonuseful features similar to those of neoplasms as a ...

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