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    Supports→Prescribing biosynthetic growth hormone to patients with normal growth hormone levels is an enhancement, not legitimate medical treatment

    Patients with normal growth hormone levels have no diagnosable growth hormone deficiency

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    Probably the most common rejoinder to the problem of prevention is to distinguish the problems to which they respond. Treatments are interventions that address the health problems created by diagnosable diseases and disabilities—“maladies” in the helpful language of Gert, Culver and Clouser (2006). Enhancements, on the other hand, are interventions aimed at healthy systems and traits. Thus, prescribing biosynthetic growth hormone to rectify a diagnosable growth hormone deficiency is legitimate t

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