Can't Trust Them!

"Our Daily Meds" by author Melody Peterson. Her book was attacked by the New York Post's Goldberg who just happens to be "friends" with a drug company.

Physicians have lost their way, perhaps with drug company incentives. Some physicians are hired by the drug companies. Some physicians take hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. The drug companies employs two lobbyist for every member of Congress.

In 1992 drug companies began paying fees to the FDA to get their drugs approved. Lots of pressure is applied for Congress to do what the drug companies want them to do.

Drugs, legal drugs, are a very big business. Melody says we need a law to ban doctors from taking money from drug companies.

Some patients get side affects symptoms, so instead of taking the patient off of the drug - they of course, wanting to sell more drugs, give that patient yet another drug to take away yet another symptom. See a pattern?

And you know old people are just so trusting of doctors. They come from that listen to the church; listen to the government mentality. They actually believe that church, government and doctors are looking out for their best interest. Old people haven't a clue they are victims of a greedy money hungry system. But it's reality.

Drug tests are manipulated giving the subject a lesser dose of the old drug which therefore has no effect and then giving them the new drug. Doctors are paid to lecture in front of other doctors who do not know that the drug companies are paying them to push their products.

I love this one - can't lose weight? It's probably a thyroid problem. Yeah right! Your cholesterol is high - yeah right. How do I know the scale isn't just a wee bit off or a wee bit sensitive to promote a prescription. You know drug companies have the medical industry to lower that 140/70 and make it 120/30 in order to push more drugs.

Bottom line? Keep yourself as healthy as humanly possible. Exercise and take care of yourself. You know what is healthy living and what isn't.

It's a sad situation but the bottom question is "Can we really trust anyone?"