Goldman Sachs asks in biotech research report: 'Is curing patients a sustainable business model?'
Goldman Sachs analysts attempted to address a touchy subject for biotech companies, especially those involved in the pioneering "gene therapy" treatment: cures could be bad for business in the long run.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-asks-is-curing-patients-a-sustainable-business-model.html
The practice of medicine is the art of restoring the sick to health. Modern medicine
is, to a great extent, looked upon and employed as if it were a system by which man
by his cunning and cleverness may cheat Nature out of her dues and act against the
laws of God with impunity, while, to many persons calling themselves physicians, it
is merely a method of making money and gratifying their vanity.
Instead of seeking to know the divine laws in Nature, and to help to restore the divine order of things,
the highest aim of medical science is at present to find means to so poison the body
of man and make it pestiferous by inoculation as to render it “immune,” which
means, to make it incapable of reacting upon the introduction of a similar poison.
This system corresponds in religion to that which succeeds in quieting the voice of
conscience by never paying any attention to it.
Four hundred years ago Paracelsus spoke the following words to the physicians of
his times, and we leave it to the reader to judge whether or not his words may find
just application today. He says:
“You have entirely deserted the path indicated by Nature, and built up an artificial
system, which is fit for nothing but to swindle the public and to prey upon the pockets of the sick.
Your safety is due to the fact that your gibberish is unintelligible to the public, who fancy that it must have a meaning, and the consequence is that no one can come near you without being cheated. Your art does not consist in curing the sick, but in worming yourself into the favour of the rich, in swindling the poor,
and in gaining admittance to the kitchens of the noblemen of the country.
You live upon imposture, and the aid and abetment of the legal profession enables you to carry on your impostures, and to evade punishment by the law.
You poison the people and ruin their health; you are sworn to use diligence in your art; but how could you
do so, as you possess no art, and all your boasted science is nothing but an invention to cheat and deceive? You denounce me because I do not follow your schools; but your schools can teach me nothing which would be worth knowing.
You belong to the tribe of snakes, and I expect nothing but poison from you.
You do not spare the sick: how could I expect that you would respect me, while I am cutting down your
income by exposing your pretensions and ignorance to the public?”
This is not applicable to the medical profession of our day as a whole; not because
that profession has of itself risen to a higher standard, but because physicians are
human beings, and humanity as a whole has been somewhat improving in morals.
There are, however, numerous well-intentioned fools in the medical profession,
knowing nothing whatever about the real nature of man, and their mistakes are not
less injurious if committed in ignorance than if they were intentional. Moreover, their
folly is the more dangerous as it is protected by the authorities of the State...
