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What is the relationship between health and sickness?

Hugh Mann   (13 December 2006)

What is the relationship between health and sickness? 13 December 2006
Hugh Mann, physician Eagle Rock, MO 65641 Send response to journal: Re: What is the relationship between health and sickness?	Like the two ends of a seesaw, health and sickness have an inverse relationship. As health goes up, sickness goes down. As health goes down, sickness goes up. By balancing the seesaw in favor of health, we can avoid sickness and the merry-go-round of endless doctors. Sadly, most doctors focus on sickness, but ignore health. Doctors define health as the absence of sickness. But health is more than the absence of sickness, just as life is more than the absence of death. Health is our most important goal, just as life is our most important possession. Competing interests: None declared