the biomedical model was responsible for causing more harm than benefits. He argued that physicians caused illnesses to patients instead of cure. The example he gave was the adverse reactions resulting from drugs given to the patient for the cure of a diagnosed disease. He also laid the blame on the pharmaceutical companies and manufacturers for coming up with products that were iatrogenic to the society. In a similar work in the year 1990

Illich considers the biomedical model as having robbed the society a few aspects such tolerance to pain and other social conditions and urged people not to over depend on medicine.