Could we be looking at a false-complexity medical paradigm, where those afflicted with chronic disease are being used as pass-through, money laundering flesh bag conduits from the national treasury and Gross National Product to the creators of med school curricula and congressional 'health'care legislation? Just say'in..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmfS3wqyunk
"The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions." Florence Nightingale