While there may be some truth to this statement, it bespeaks a life orientation which is at its core separatist, rather mean-spirited, and constipated. To think that the proper or natural state is to be without wounds is an illusion. Any medicine motivated by the fantasy of doing away with woundedness is trying to avoid the human condition. Invulnerability Being a young physician myself, I see a lot of young patients. Actually, it's as if a prized Persian rug were to receive a small wine stain that mars its perfection.
Some people look at the object and see only the stain.
Back before World War II, I had syphilis. They finally cured that in '45. In '48 I had my appendix out. And on and on it goes, much of this calamitous health history transpiring before I learned my addition tables. And yet they are sitting in front of me, decades later, stoically recounting their health history, monuments to survival and resilience and the marvelous adaptability of the human organism.