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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
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could you explain the following sentence?

To air these predicaments is not anti-medical spleen – a churlish reprisal against medicine for its victories – but simply to face the growing reality of medical power not exactly without responsibility but with dissolving goals.
  

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What I am saying here against the medical establishment is not merely vitriol against it - and rather ungrateful vitriol at that, given what good medicine has done - but simple stating of the fact - which is becoming more and more obvious - that the power the medical establishment wields over society, although that power still retains some sense of its great responsibility to society, nevertheless has lost its sense of having definite goals.

  • What I am saying here against the medical establishment is not merely vitriol against it - and rather ungrateful vitriol at that, given what good medicine has done - but simple stating of the fact - which is becoming more and more obvious - that the power the medical establishment wields over society, although that power still retains some sense of its great responsibility to society, nevertheless has lost its sense of having definite goals.
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What I am saying here against the medical establishment is not merely vitriol against it - and rather ungrateful vitriol at that, given what good medicine has done - but simple stating of the fact - which is becoming more and more obvious - that the power the medical establishment wields over society, although that power still retains some sense of its great responsibility to society, nevertheless
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AnonymousWhat I am saying here against the medical establishment is not merely vitriol against it - and rather ungrateful vitriol at that, given what good medicine has done - but simple stating of the fact - which is becoming more and more obvious - that the power the medical establishment wields over society, although that power still retains some sense of its great resp
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Anonymousnow i can understand it . thank you
Now I can understand it. Thank you.

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