How Drug Reps Influence Your Doctor

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The New Christine — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:07:45 GMT

Hey, you know what MD stands for....Medicine Dispenser! They can't help handing out prescriptions, it's in their job title!

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helpingheart — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:46:23 GMT

When I used to to go to the doctors for various maladies, I used to see sometimes FOUR drug company reps there waiting their turn to meet with the doctors. (Now I don't TRUST allopathic doctors.)

I thought to myself, this is incredible, these young guys and gals are Legal Drug Pushers! (All very nicely dressed in expensive suites.)

No Wonder the only advice from doctors is: Take this or that pill, and doctors very rarely followup to see how your doing!

A Pill For Every Ill.

re: How Drug Reps Influence Your Doctor

dfb — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:59:30 GMT

check out this link.. forces within the FDA are working on CODEC, a rule set restricting all 'alternative' medicine practise to doctors only and vitamins to pharm industry only

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=157

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The Herb Doc — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:21:21 GMT

It’s quite obvious they control the doctors protocol, so when they ask you to, “Ask your doctor” they have their double-certified drug pushing technique in perfect line for executing! Most people swallow this hook line and sinker! Sadly, it’s a two way street. If we weren’t so lazy and concerned with convenience rather then using common sense, knowing darn well that what we put into our bodies must be kept natural, the drug companies would have never succeeded.

Then, in their defense, they say, “well, the life expectancy has gone up so much in the last 100 years, It must be the wonderful drugs we now have!”

Hogwash! Did anyone ever stop to think that the work industry is now mostly not hard dangerous physical labor anymore? And that we don’t have to battle the elements of heat, cold, wind and rain like we did? And the fact that many of us retire at around 55-60 which was when hard working men and women used to die. Then think about the fact that the life expectancy is, as of lately, on the downward curve and then add this to the equation:

The estimated total number of iatrogenic deaths—that is, deaths induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures— in the US annually is 783,936. It is evident that the American medical system is itself the leading cause of death and injury in the US! By comparison, approximately 699,697 Americans died of heart problems in 2001, while 553,251 died of cancer.

Just kinda gets my blood pressure up but I have good herbs for that!

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Russ Bianchi — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:15:32 GMT

Big Pharma annually KILLS OR SEVERELY HARMS more people from their DANGEROUS PRESCIPTION & OTC BRANDS in the USA, than Al Queda cumulatively has since 9-11, or before.

"Weapons of Mass Destruction"? You need go no further than your local drug store chain to find them.

Avoid all such drugs and implement lower cost and much safer preventative models Dr. Mercola recommends on this web site and take control of your own health!

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cheftodd — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:59:36 GMT

I know about this drug Neurontin. after the back surgery I have had, my pain has gotten worse. the doctor gave me this as a nerve pain med. this junk is bad. I was not myself,(evil was what I was, says my wife and kids)I did not think clearly, very bad thoughts on this. I feel that this is going to cause a lot of very bad things to come.