| | | Great post to Skinowski, perhaps more important now a year later...
“I have been waiting for the medical cartel to declare aspirin to be a prescription-only chemical. <
| Quite obviously, the transformation of one of the oldest and least costly medications into something fantastically expensive didn't happen due to free market forces. |
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There are huge profits to be had. Letting people treat themselves with a pharmacologically active chemical like aspirin is too dangerous, especially when appointments and medical examination can be made and money banked.
"Hello Mrs Smith. You have a headache? We can fit you in at 3.30pm on Thursday next week."
"But I have a headache now. On Thursday it will be gone."
"Sorry but that's the earliest we have."
"Can't you just email the pharmacy a prescription?"
"No, it's far too dangerous to let people self-medicate. Heck it could be a brain tumour, meningitis or any number of things wrong so we need to properly diagnose it and bank a lot of money."
"But when it is a brain tumour, you just say - take an aspirin, have a lie down and come back for another consultation in a week if it persists. Then you up the dose to some other pain killer and say try that for another week. This is just a headache which will respond to aspirin. If it doesn't, I'll do something else."
"Oh, and where did you get your medical degree Mrs Smart Aleck patient?"
By then, Mrs Smith is really getting a headache.
Water should be prescription only too. People can die from dehydration. We can't be too safe. Doctors should monitor our water levels to ensure we are on the straight and narrow.
Safety first,
Mqurice” |
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