Pharmaceutical Influence on Health Care
A careful read of this web page should give one a fairly clear picture of what takes place in the medical world and the role of the pharmaceuticals in that world.
Quote: “If the American Medical Student Association has anything to do with it, relations between doctors and the pharmaceutical industry will soon look considerably different. Representing 30 000 students, interns, and residents throughout the United States, the association is running a campaign—PharmFree—calling for an end to gift giving, free lunches, sponsored education, and paid speaking.1 “
Bribes = gift giving, free lunches, sponsored education, and paid speaking. I wonder if an all-expenses paid trip to Las Vegas for a “seminar” would come under gift giving?
Folks, when the students are saying it’s a big problem then we can be sure it’s a major problem. Those students are the people who are spending a fortune for the privilege of an M.D. after their names. The trick is to work them mercilessly, keep them exhausted with long hours and crushing responsibilities so that any respite from their labors will have them seeking rest and relaxation. Do not give them any time to pursue independent research or study medicine from any perspective other than that of the pharmaceutical-sponsored medical schools.
The influence of the pharmaceuticals on the medical industry is also presented here. Here is an eye-opening quote from that source, “Pharmaceutical companies spend billions of dollars each year promoting and marketing their products. 1 A fraction of that amount, yet still estimated in the thousands (i.e., $8,000), is spent each year on individual physicians. Research has demonstrated that gifts from pharmaceutical companies to physicians lead to increased costs or negative health outcomes. 1”
$8,000 per year on each physician. Need I say more?
Another source provides information on the problems in medical research and the need to curtail the influence of the pharmaceuticals in that area.
Still another page tells about "An Unhealthy Influence on Doctors".
And I rest my case that the most powerful influence in the field of conventional medical care is the profit driven pharmaceutical corporations. In this system healing will always be secondary to profit. The primary goal of pharmaceutical-controlled Health will always be the generation of profit and not be on the healing of the patient.
The result of this philosophy is a system of cancer treatment where the emphasis is placed on treating the symptoms of the disease and not on the correction of the fundamental cause of the disease.
