PEDIATRICS Vol. 55 No. 2 February 1975, pp. 247
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THE LIMITS OF MEDICAL CARE

Ivan Illick

Overpopulation makes more people dependent on limited resources. Affluence compels each person to use more energy. Faulty technology degrades energy in an inefficient way.

Honesty requires that we each recognize the need to limit procreation, consumption and waste, but equally we must radically reduce our expectations that machines will do our work for us or that therapists can make us learned or healthy.