Introduction

Paracelsus, a physician with the deliberately ironic title, first do no harm, rates how we are foolish to trust the medical profession what is really the medical industry. Paracelsus takes his pseudonym from the famous sixteenth century swiss physician who was instrumental in modernizing the pra of medicine. The author's own aim is less ambitious. He wants to stop and hopefully reverse the decline of american medicine. To that end, he analyzes major elements of medical practice pointing out their deficiencies and problems.