Osler's Warning

It is preposterous indeed that medicine today does not concern itself with health promotion, it does, instead, go overboard with illness interventions, many of which do make things worse. Sir William Osler warned us not to intervene when man is well, but that is what we do today! Medicine does not believe in the idea of wellness. Each person is considered ill unless proved otherwise by use of funds that can be commandeered. It is a paradigm prostitution. Routine check up is currently a major industry, it is presented as if prediction of the future could entirely depend on it.