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The egg or the hen? Medicine is a bussines

Who is first: the egg or the hen?

For me the contradiction between lifestyle and the mode of
production: economical and social (Modo economico-social
de produccion:estructura economica:Marx) are interlinked.
Our genes are determined by our environment!

You can read all the biological issues of Nature, for example,
and can understand it. You can look at the Archives:
http://listserv.paho.org/Archives/equidad.html
and the article "Toward a dynamic concept of Health-CPRN Report" by
Sholom Glouberman, Director of Canadian Policy Research Networks, May
2001 at http://www.cpm.org/docs/health/tnp_e.pdf

And, of course, the first books of Marx K(manuscritos),
"The sane society," Fromm E.,1955.
"One-dimensional man", Marcuse,H,1954.
"L'Anti-Oedipe:Capitalisme et Schizophrenie:Deleuze" G.and Guattari
F.,1972(how the economy determine your inconscience)

"In our world, Health is merchandise and Medicine is a business"

Dr. Alejandro Wajner
--
Medicine is a bussines

Dear colleages:

In my opinion, nowadays Medicine is a great business which belongs to the
pharmaceutical and technology industry. The physician plays a passive role
between patients and Corporations that sell products, like health.

In Argentina the last cardiology meeting taught us that we must use drugs:
from statins, aspirins, beta blockers to ACE inhibitors in order to prevent
cardiovascular disease. This point of view is political!

Real prevention is the fighting to change our society: its economical and
social injustice and inequities. The poverty and all the wars.

To be healthy: people need good food, use and play with their body, a plenty
of sexuality and happiness. Also, good houses, running water, work for all,
a communitarian project, for example.

We need to learn other skills: how to change the behavior, how to use the
feelings, how to implement health projects.

I wish a new Medicine: more humanistic and less capitalistic.
Time and Medicine are money!

Thanks,
Dr.Alejandro Wajner
Buenos Aires,
Argentina

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