"All the procedures were costly, and the doctors pointed out that they were also very painful, and many were dangerous, and that none could be proven effective. For the time being the legislators refused to act on such medical advice, a failure that, provisionally, tends to reinforce the belief in the necessity of professional protection against professional hubris." (Ivan Illich, The Right to Useful Unemployment)
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Your excerpt does not include what "such medical advice" was and what action the legislators were contemplating. I can't make sense of it.
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Your excerpt does not include what "such medical advice" was and what action the legislators were contemplating. I can't make sense of it.