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"Die Veränderung betrifft also bloß die arroganten Ansprüche der Schulen, die sich gerne hierin (wie sonst mit Recht in vielen anderen Stücken) für die alleinigen Kenner und Aufbewahrer solcher Wahrheiten möchten halten lassen, von denen sie dem Publikum nur den Gebrauch mitteilen, den Schlüssel derselben aber für sich behalten[...]"
Was natürlich für keine andere Fachdisziplin gilt, na klar.

I don't like this book so far.

I have to correct myself on the sources, he usually cites several per footnote.

Still, crap book. He comes after his teacher, and that's not a compliment.

He thinks the privatization of health insurance is no solution, because then costs would rise. By what logic? Private companies are almost always more efficient than the public sector, and private insurance works well in about every other sector, so why not health?

This book doesn't portray scientists in a good light.

Povondra may come across as arrogant, but what he says about the importance of fulfilling even lower duties is genuinely inspiring.

Good info on the importance of publicizing the rate of successful operations for both hospitals and doctors.

Why does he compare the American medical system favorably to the German one after he bashed in the first pages?

Also, interesting how he describes the German hospital system as wasteful, saying other countries do with a third our hospital beds and a hospitalization durations half as long.

Pretty clever that Andy the newt is described by scientists as lacking independent thinking and a soul, while his behavior is described as equivalent to the average Englishman a paragraph or two later by the very same scientists.