 What is the major drawback of issuing a cure to each person?
The people we treat are on one side of the line and we're on the other. "I dunno, Henry, but staying on our side is a pretty good way to keep sane Do you know that what we are doing is really the most primitive medicine in the world? We are treating the symptoms and not the disease. One cannibal walking another with sleeping sickness doesn't cure anything. But now I know we're semi-mechanics, semi-engineers, semi-inventors, semi lots of other things, but certainly not even semi-psychiatrists. "You know, Henry, not all of our Cures are so—so—not all are like that. If anybody does see that button in a patient's ear, it looks like a hearing aid. Yet for a nominal sum, the patient is equipped to hear the soothing recorded voice of his mother saying, 'It's all right, everything's all right, Mommy loves you, it's all right....'" But what about the severe case where we have to burn a three-dimensional smiling mother-image on the eyes of the patient with radiation? With that image over everything he sees and with that insidious voice drumming in his head night and day, do you mean to say that man's senses will only be impaired 23 per cent? Why, he'll turn violently schizophrenic sooner or later—and you know it. The only cure we have for that is still a strait jacket, a padded cell or one of those inhuman lobotomies." Many "Cures" were not readily apparent. The magnetic suction dart dropped away from Infield like a thing that had been alive and now was killed. People take one look at your Cure and don't ask you to go walking in the rain. Infield supposed it was a Cure, although he had never issued one like it. "It's a cure for alcoholism," Price told him. The Cures were supposed to save lives, not endanger them. It can't be removed without causing my death and it's indestructible. Men hide in the comforts of insanity, but when faced with death, they are often forced back to reality. Every time he blinks, the amount of polarization changes and a new page appears. The Good Book says a little wine is good for a man, or something like that. A man could cut his wrists with the edge of a sheet of paper if he tried long enough, so of course the Bible would be imaginary.
 They may develop additional fears and require additional cures
 They may develop additional fears and require additional cures  The psychiatrist prescribing the cure is the only one who can control it  The cures all include an option that would kill its wearer  The cures are all costly placebos