Hippocrates and Hypocrisy

Excessive use of medicines continues unabated. Patients not only must pay more but also run the risk of being afflicted with more serious illnesses.

April 3, 2001

LET’S just call him Budi. He’s far too small and frail for his age. A mere glance at this 10-year-old boy is enough to see that he’s not in good health: about a meter tall, he weighs only 22 kilograms and very slow in his movement. When TEMPO visited him at home in Rawamangun, East Jakarta, the swarthy, wavy-haired Budi was playing with his toy car. Every time the car hit a wall, he asked his mother to retrieve it for him as he

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