The Patient Needs Patience
I wound up being treated by a hematologist after a check-up at a walk-in clinic. I did not have a “family doctor” because I have never regarded them as collectibles. Anyhoo the check-up revealed leukemia and also a cholesterol level regarded as high.
To get to the point, the hematologist kept asking me if I had located a “family doctor” and was persistent enough to make me wonder if there is a very complex network of referrals in medicine or at least, an entire pre-med course devoted to making every human on earth a victim a patient of as many doctors as possible.
High cholesterol indeed. If we do not eat enough cholesterol then our body will manufacture it. Twenty percent comes from what we eat and the liver makes the rest. It is necessary to good health. There is some dispute over the role of cholesterol in heart disease. Most conventional medical people insist that cholesterol is bad while there are some authorities who lay the blame elsewhere. Other sources place the blame for various ailments on cholesterol-treatment drugs such as Lipitor and others in the statin family.
Pfizer makes Lipitor, which is prescribed to lower cholesterol, and that product takes in a cool 10 billion dollars per year. That kind of money can buy a lot including maybe a lowering of the cholesterol level considered acceptable. You could say it looks like a move to turn healthy people into patients. It’s another case of follow the money.
Lipitor acts to reduce the liver’s output of cholesterol. Do not worry about Lipitor blowing out your liver because your doctor will monitor the situation.Quote from an information site: "Statins may also cause a liver disorder in about 1 percent of patients. Because of that, everyone taking them should have a periodic blood test to spot early signs of trouble." He will suggest you stop taking it before your liver is destroyed. Ain’t medical science wonderful?
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