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Doctors felt that the family was actually the single most terrifying and stubborn disease. Your family is the enemy was a common phrase that summed up this new perspective on treatment that came to us with the onset of the Age of Medicine.
Families were indeed the cancer cells of society, the central source of all diseases, an infection, the most painful and shameful affliction, in direct opposition to the value system of medical punk.
“Emotions are not to be exchanged,” Dr. Bauchi lectured. “It is owing to love that we suffer and worry. It is owing to love that we experience terror and pain. Love threatens our very lives, and if there is no life, all else is lost.”
So the main point of the Age of Medicine was not to make it more convenient for patients to stay home and reduce their risk of being admitted to the hospital. In fact, it was just the opposite: the primary mission was to eliminate the diseased family system, which was already on the verge of collapse, and to provide safety and health while people left every aspect of their lives to the hospital.
Patients were living people in the state of dying.
