The new strategies for disease mongering
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https://doi.org/10.31053/1853.0605.v68.n3.21507Abstract
The perception of health is increasingly bombarded by a series of seductive messages that state that the ideal of health is reached through the consumption of drugs, operations or other medical interventions that produce apparent well-being.
In contemporary Western societies, based on the maximization of economic benefits above all else, it is increasingly common for patients to be transmuted to clients-consumers, and these have gradually and increasingly become accustomed to buying, within the possibilities and coverage of each person, everything they want, desire or understand that will make them happy.
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