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pushing pills down our throats
Re: pushing pills down our throats -- Posted by Robert on 09-03-05 16:11
"Sedgie" wrote in message
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In article <1125781399.167827.301440@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
zwalanga@yahoo.com says...
> Pushing Pills down our Throats
> By Judy Gerstel
> Sept 2, 2005
>
> Chances are, if you're an adult Canadian, that you're taking a
> prescription drug.
>
> It could be a statin to lower bad cholesterol, an antidepressant to
> raise spirits, a calcium channel blocker to lower blood pressure, an
> erectile dysfunction drug to raise, er, ...
>
> Last year, the cost of prescription drugs in Canada surpassed $18
> billion.
>
> That's a prodigious pile of pills.
>
> It's also more than the payments for all services provided by all the
> physicians in Canada last year.
>
> And the annual increase in prescription spending in this country
> â?" it's growing by $1.5 billion a year â?" would be enough
> to finance the services of some 3,500 new physicians every year,
> reports the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
>
> Now that is hard to swallow.
>
> And what's the explanation?
>
> Are we getting sicker? Are we getting healthier? Or, are we simply
> getting suckered more by Big Pharma ...
>
> A compelling case for the latter is made in a new Canadian book titled
> Selling Sickness: How The World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are
> Turning Us All Into Patients.
>
> Of course, author Alan Cassels, a drug policy researcher at the
> University of Victoria, and coauthor Ray Moynihan, a health care policy
> researcher and journalist, aren't exactly telling a new story.
>
> Drug companies pandering to doctors and putting them on the payroll
> while at the same time medicalizing lifestyle issues is an oft-told,
> hoary tale.
>
> Books have been written about disease-mongering and the sly marketing
> of non-essential medicines.
>
> One of the most influential was published last summer: The Truth About
> the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What To Do About It by Dr.
> Marcia Angell, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.
>
You are SO right. I lived in Canada (Alberta) for 20 years before
returning to the States. I was amazed when my doctors here suggested
taking me OFF many of the medications I was on in Canada. One of the
problems in Canada is the difficulty (especially in remote areas) of
getting the appropriate tests. You can't get an MRI unless you are
missing a limb at the very least. Another problem is the seeming lack of
knowledge by MDs. But they DO have a knowledge of drugs - usually the
older, least effective and most problematic drugs at that. If I had
stayed in Canada I would be dead.
My comments are these.
Let's see here. You have to wait years for surgery so they give you pills
instead and now they complain about the pills. The only answer is no surgery
and no pills. They can save so much money and they GNP ration can really go
down even more.
It's pretty obscene to treat healthy people and try to prevent anything. Who
ever came up with that idiotic idea.
All they have to do is raise the normal blood pressure and blood glucose
normals and save lots of money on blood pressure meds and glucose lowering
drugs.
We really need a better definition of healthy to one that says if you feel
healthy then you don't need anything.
Re: pushing pills down our throats -- Posted by rtk on 09-03-05 16:55
Inspired by this thread, I added a post to my blog on the subject. I
welcome comments, very much including opposing views.
http://totallyofftopic.blogspot.com/
rtk
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