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   %HEALTH COMMUNITY MEDICAL DOCTOR HOSPITAL ADDICT+930302
  %PRISON FABRIC WOVEN FEARS CONFORMAL PLEASURE JOY+930302
   %PERSONAL INTEGRITY HONESTY LIMIT POSSIBLE DEATH 930302

     A community cannot be healthy without honest patterns
of  dealing  with  human  limitations,   addictions,   and
collusive  games  of  mutual  self  deception.   Extensive
programs  of  scientific  medical  care  by   professional
doctors  and  hospital  personnel are not the  essence  of
healthy  communities.   Quick access to extensive  medical
services,   drugs,   surgery and emergency  treatments  in
crisis   situations  is  not  the  essence  of  a  healthy
community. Extensive medical treatments for terminally ill
patients are not the essence of a healthy community.

     The essence of a healthy community is to be found  in
healthy patterns of ideals,  values,  attitudes,  beliefs,
and  communal networks of open and  honest  communications
about  all kinds of human experiences.  In the absence  of
such healthy patterns, a community with extensive  medical
technologies and services is likely to be diseased through
its addictions to fixes; including medical fixes.

     Healthy  communities  pay more attention  to  healthy
patterns  of  ideals,  values,   attitudes,   beliefs  and
communal  networks of open and honest communications about
all kinds of human experiences; than they pay attention to
preparing for crisis  interventions  and medical fixes.  A
gram  of  healthy prevention is better than a kilogram  of
cure. It is not as dramatic; but is it far better.

     The  problem  with healthy programs of prevention  is
that   they   do   not  celebrate  the  kinds   of   sweet
technological fixes which bring  high  levels of attention
to the celebrants of high technology.  Healthy programs of
prevention are not technologically sweat and do not  bring
high  levels  of  profits to those people who promote  the
healthy  programs.  Successful programs minimize the  need
for high cost crisis interventions.  Programs which  focus
upon preparation for crisis intervention maximize the need
for  high  cost crisis interventions;   and  maximize  the
profits   to  those  people  who  are  experts  in  crisis
interventions.   In a capitalistic community the  economic
system promotes  profitable crisis  intervention,   rather
than healthy programs of community health maintenance.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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