Phoenix32890 wrote:New Haven-
Quote:If people give up salt, what will happen to the diuretics industry?
If people become more aware, take control of their lives, and become healthier, what will become of the pharmaceutical industry in general? I think that people need to know that it is in the drug industry's interest for people to eat and behave unwisely. That keeps their cash registers humming.
Also, people need to know that if they need a medication, they don't necessarily need the high priced name brand drugs that just received its patent yesterday. In many cases, some of the older drugs were just as effective, cost less, and had less side effects.
Pharmaceutical company's detail sales people are paid big bucks to convince an MD that their ***New*** ***Improved*** super duper pill is the one to prescribe. They give the doctors samples to had out to patients, figuring that the doctor will then prescribe the medication, (Just like the sample of cake or cheese that you get in the super market)Doctors, being doctors, and not business people, fall for the detail peoples' bulls**t every time!
Phoenix:
I think the drug companies want us to be dependents. They want us to demand new meds from our docs and they want the docs to order, not 1, not 2 but 3 pills to do the work of one or even none.
Docs flush the patients today through managed care, faster than a car going through a car wash. Walk into exam room, you're asked "What's the problem". Patient has to hurry up and say what's the problem. But how many patients even know what their problems are?
In the old days, people didn't visit MDs each month, year or in many cases a lifetime. People, if vaccinated, managed to survive many illness, didn't get fat and lazy and weren't depressed and bi-polar. Somehow, they did very well on very little
Today, MDs can't treat any patient without first putting a label on that patient. Rules of the road for your average internist: Lable and then write an Rx.
Remedy: watch out for what you eat. Get plenty of excercise and rest.
Avoid unnecessary medications. Vist an MD only when absolutely necessary.
c.i.
