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To: yard_man who wrote (65943)6/7/2007 11:22:08 AM
From: kikogrey  Respond to of 116555
 
doctors == high priced drug pushers -- for the most part today.

OTOH, patients demand drug therapy or they'll just go to another MD who will "treat" them.

One huge problem with health care in America is that lots of drugs are used to treat maladies that could be prevented or treated by lifestyle changes-stopping smoking and losing weight. That's a message Americans refuse to hear. Our population has gone from obese to "super obese." Lots of folks out there over 300#.



To: yard_man who wrote (65943)6/7/2007 11:30:52 PM
From: Webster Groves  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 116555
 
If doctors were the pushers, the drug companies would market directly to them, but they don't. Click on any website and you'll pull up a direct marketed drug ad aimed at the end user - you. The epitome is that sad figure of Abe Lincoln associated with some Japanese pill pusher -- for melancholy I presume.

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