> The trouble with preventative medicine is that it is creating artificial anxiety on the basis of the possibility of illness The possibility of illness exists

> The trouble with preventative medicine is that it is creating artificial anxiety on the basis of the possibility of illness The possibility of illness exists with or without preventative medicine. Preventative medicine decreases that possibility, and reduces anxiety. > The acceptance of mortality (or its lack) is key to this. Whether or not you accept mortality has no effect on whether it is a condition we all share. Though it's unclear to me if you wish for everyone to accept mortality, or reject it. > Or, on the other hand, we can think of health as "public health", and forget about the individual. I'm trying not to read something into this, but it's hard not to. In general, health is personal/individual, even if the way it affects you can then affect others. Of course, in the case of infectious disease, individual infection leads to transmission and public spread, so it should be thought of at more than just an individual level. (That isn't really relevant for the PSA, though. That's quite individual.)