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Micah Dubinko
Mon, 20 Jun 2005
From _A Pattern Language_, 47
Hospitals put the emphasis on sickness. They are enormously expensive; they are inconvenient because they are too centralized; and they tend to create sickness, rather than to cure it, because doctors get paid when people are sick.
By contrast, in traditional Chinese medicine, people pay the doctor only when they are healthy; when they are sick, he is obliged to treat them, without payment. The doctors have incentives to keep people well.
How many things in the world, especially the hi-tech world seem exactly backwards? Too many. -m
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