When you are ill, do you prefer to go to a doctor, or to try to cure yourself? Give reasons., There are people who claim that all illness is psychosomatically caused. To what extent would you agree? Is it true for you?, Szasz asserts that so-called mental illness is used to disguise extreme self-centeredness. Do you agree that ‘mental illness is a myth’? If so, how would you account for conditions like schizophrenia and paranoia which cause their sufferers so much anguish?, Modern medicine has made it possible to avoid much suffering and many deaths which previous centuries took for granted. What are the results of this on our attitude to illness and death? Are all the effects beneficial?, What kind of attitude should doctors have to their patients? Is the brisk, ‘no-nonsense’ approach a good one, or should they be more gentle? Should doctors always be completely truthful with their patients?, Do you take enough exercise? If not, why not? Are you just lazy?.

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