re: #132 Dreggas

Doctor’s treat illnesses, diagnose them and there are many who do a lot of hard work to help a patient get better. However there are many more that do make more money by pushing certain drugs as treatments for a given condition. The pharma companies on the other hand have more to gain by simply pushing new treatments vs. finding any sort of cure.

I see the pharma companies are pitching their product directly to the patient (consumer) in TV commercials and magazine ads. It used to be that you only saw these ads in medical journals, now you see them everywhere.

I especially love the part when they rattle off the side effects at double speed. blablabla SUDDEN DEATH blablablabla CANCER blablablabla HEART ATTACK blablablabla DO NOT TAKE IF PREGNANT