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Are we though? Most of the time people look for a pill solution to major deficiencies in their lives. The doctor isn’t strapping you down and shoving the drugs
by whb07 8y ago
Are we though? Most of the time people look for a pill solution to major deficiencies in their lives. The doctor isn’t strapping you down and shoving the drugs into your mouth.
Just like blaming the heroine drug epidemic at pharma and doctors, it’s weird how we never look at the individual who’s taking the pills in the first place. Prior to this epidemic we had other ones to which everyone was really trying to pin the blame on something else rather than a combination to include the individual as well.
My buddy is a doctor and he’s aware of the lies/illusions patients live in. But if the doctor suggests such things like “exercise/clean up diet” for a few weeks before progressing to another step, that patient will never come back. They will also downrate the doctor on yelp like sites. So it becomes a troublesome proposition for that doctor.
- mnm1 8y agoNot sure what you're asking. If you're asking if we are stuck with shitty drugs that only work sometimes and require the patient to be dependent on them, I'd say yes. The legal consequences are too severe to argue otherwise. Even carrying out legitimate scientific studies is close to impossible. Of course one should lol at the individual. One should also look at society's role in promoting depression. But you're not going to fix society so you're not going to fix the individual who is made sick by that society. People need friends and contact with other people, not the isolation our society provides. They need stability in life and purpose, not the unemployment and abysmal life our society provides for most of its members. We can't fix these problems. Blaming the individual for things that are out of his control is silly. Making him dependent on a substance to function is criminal. All the while we have medicine that one doesn't need to be dependent on and can be used once in awhile for recovery but researchers are punished with jail time so that we increase the profits of the company making the drug that doesn't work. Who wouldn't rightfully be depressed in such a society and who wouldn't be angry at people who suggest that the individual's own behavior rather than the helplessness and hopelessness of our society are his fault alone (as our society does with this issue)?
- thatcat 8y agoSounds like your friend decided to optimize his medical recommendations based on return business and has found reasons to blame the patients as a justification for operating on business metrics. The patients are probably doing the same thing, who needs to pay a doctor to tell them to diet and excercise?
- collyw 8y agoThe non public health care system you have in the States just looks like such a joke sitting here in Europe.