"Well, so much for the caduceus. Somebody obviously got the wrong symbol for modern medicine–or did they? The caduceus seems to be an appropriate symbol for modern commercial medicine. Of particular relevance are the functions of escorting souls of the dead, wisdom, fertility, commerce, luck, eloquence, cheating and thieving. These have become symbolic of how medicine evolved in the late Twentieth Century."  — Luke Van Orden, Where Have All the Healers Gone?: A Doctor's Recovery Journey I'm not in any way implying that either the fat waste who made this card is using said symbol on purpose, or that modern medicine isn't on the whole a great thing, just that the increased commercialization of medicine into big business is something that should be common knowledge.  Whats more profitable, an antibiotic taken for two weeks or an antidepressant taken for two years?  We wonder why there has been little headway in antibiotics since the mid 1900's.