Amgen
Nov 15 2007, Rhapsodysinger

Doctors suffer from the God-complex. Michael Foucault, the twentieth century iconoclast had shown in his famous book Discipline and Punish how and why medicos think they own they are gods. Foucault pointed out that doctors feel they know us inside...

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