Reply #5: I HATE Big Pharma

[riverwalker]

I also hate commercials, so I channel surf when they come on. Discovered ALL the advertisers on all 4 local news were drug companies pushing poison. Feeling sad? Take this pill. Limp dick? Take this pill. Worry about a heart attack? Take this pill. Do you have the normal aches and pains that normally come from living to a normal middle age? Well by golly, take this pill. When I check in my patients and they all have a bag of 20 pill bottles of poisonous crap, and can't even tell me why they take them, I want to scream. When patients with minor discomforts have a bag of 5 different powerful narcotics that USED to be reserved for people with intractable, unbearable pain, I want to scream.
Sickness is NOT automatically a drug-deficiency. Most of the time in hospitals is spent pushing pills for big pharma. They get rich, patients get sicker, and we wonder why health care is such a mess. As for Plavix, it is required and useful after a stent for 6 months to keep it from plugging up again, but now they are pushing it for all kinds of uses. The most effective drug to protect your heart is Aspirin. Which has NO PATENT, the native americans introduced it to us, and comes from tree bark. If Aspirin DID HAVE a patent, it would probably cost $100.00 a pill.