We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing!
Interpretation
Despite advancements in medicine, people are becoming increasingly unwell.
Paddy Chayefsky's quote highlights a paradox in modern medicine, where the establishment of a vast medical infrastructure has not necessarily led to improved health outcomes. It suggests that while we may have the means to address illness, the focus might be misplaced, resulting in a society that is sicker despite the existence of sophisticated medical solutions.
In practice
In a speech addressing healthcare policy, one might say, 'As Paddy Chayefsky once remarked, despite our extensive medical efforts, the question remains: are we truly making people healthier?'
We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business...There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.
It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.
Television will do anything for a rating... anything!
Television is democracy at its ugliest.
Never affirm or repeat about your health what you do not wish to be true.
Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
For far too many people, the stigma around addiction prevents them from stepping forward for help.
We should resolve now that the health of this nation is a national concern; that financial barriers in the way of attaining health shall be removed; that the health of all it's citizens deserves the help of all the nation.
Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps.
When you have cancer, it's like you enter a new time zone: the Cancer Zone. Everything in the Tropic of Cancer revolves around your health or your sickness. I didn't want my whole life to revolve around cancer. Life came first; cancer came second.
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