Philosophy Wire: Modern doctors, hypocrites, Oxford.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2012-05-18]: Oxford researchers published a research on Lancet which says the NHS should consider giving statins to healthy people, so as to decrease the risk of heart attacks [source: BBC News]. There you go. Healthy or not healthy, it matters not. Get more drugs! This is the modern way of medicine: with the pretext of “health”, live a life like being ill…

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