It’s mainly based on american physician and writer Robin Cook’s thinkings, about how doctors are so deified they end up being like modern shamans, bearers of the “mysterious” power of healing (and also weigth loss, rejuvenation, embelishment…), while medicine actually is such an uncertain and and liable to human failures science as any other.
This work is also about the use of Amazon products for the manufacturing of lab medicines, which shows how shaman physicism is not so inferior to ours as one may think.