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      Given that 80% of major physical ailments are self-inflicted (including   
   cancer and heart disease) you need to wonder if psychiatric care is not   
   preventive medicine. When I was a college senior, Christian Barnard gave up   
   heart surgery and became a plastic surgeon on these grounds.  But the problem   
   with funding psychiatric care is one of incentives.  How do you measure the   
   effectiveness or even the delivery of "talking"? How do you make sure the   
   incredible power an effective psychiatrist has over a patient is not misused?   
   There really are no answers to this. Perhaps (my humble suggestion) the   
   answer is to teach psychiatry in the (elementary) schools so people can treat   
   themselves. Given that the most productive minds I know are so because of   
   their own ability to understand and harness their own minds (rather than some   
   "gift" of genius) I believe such training would be marvelously productive   
   (though perhaps, initially socially disruptive).   
      
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      Vasos-Peter John Panagiotopoulos II, Reagan Mozart Pindus BioStrategist   
   	   http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/vjp2/vasos.htm   
     ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice.  Everything fully disclaimed.}---   
      [Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards]   
        [Yellary Clinton, Yellalot Spitzer & Angrew Cuomo: Nasty Together]   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)