subject: Are Physicician's Relationships To Pharmaceutical Companies Unhealthy For Their Patients? (PartTwo) [print this page] Are Physicician's Relationships To Pharmaceutical Companies Unhealthy For Their Patients? (PartTwo)
In my last article I focused on the huge incentives that pharmaceutical companies invest to win the loyalty of virtually all physicians in this country (94%). I also stated that research indicates that these perks play a major role in influencing the prescription practices of most doctors regardless of the best interest of the patient. It is very unlikely that your doctor is able to make the best possible prescription for healing what ails you when his or her vision is blurred by large monetary gifts and incentives from the pharmaceutical companies who stand to make huge profits if only your doctor prescribes their drug.
Statin Drugs Are Not The Answer
It is my firm belief that statin drugs are never the answer or cure to any health concern that you might be facing at this very moment. When a doctor is quick to give a statin drug to effect healing of your physical body you can rightly suspect that he or she does not have any real understandingas to themerits of the drug in relation to your ailment but has ratherbeen sold(large money has beenspent to buy him or her) on the fact that this should be your prescription. I cannot judge his or her exact motivation for prescribing a statin drug but I can say that research has shown that your doctor is not prescribing it because it is the best medicine for your health but because your doctor has been persuaded to do so by pharmaceutical companies who have a vested interest in your prescription.
The Effect Of This Drug Mentality On Health Care In America
America is sadly just about the unhealthiest country in the world. This is an even sadder fact since we are at the same time the most affluent nation on earth. We enjoy fast food, five minute microwave dishes, and quick fixes, whether they be in regards to weight loss or any other aspect of vanity and appearance based considerations. This same type of quick fix thinking is reflected in our culture of consuming statin drugs prescribed by our physicians or bought from the pharmacy based on your physicians word, or onfaith in the testimony of the latest celebrity who has been contracted by the big drug company to sell you their drug.
This persuation has precipitated the national health crisis that we face in this country. We spend more for health care per capita then any nation on earth and yet we continue to be the most unhealthy country on earth. We have turned our health over to big business and the government and now have conclusive proof that these agencies do not now, nor ever will have our best interests at heart.
"Let Food Be Thy Medicine, And Medicine Thy Food"
This quote from the great Hippocrates should be the starting point for health care reform in this country. It is only when we as a nation begin to allow whole living foods from God's Garden and wise healthy lifestyle choices to be our primary medicine that we as a nation will experience a true health awakening and end the health care debate which has produced no appreciable benefit whatsoever.
Above all it is important to realize that there is a great conflict of interest in relation to your health care when physicians are paid huge amounts of dollars to become spokesmen and representatives of big pharmaceutical companies and their products. This should be an obvious fact and should no longer go unheeded.
Take charge of your own health through dietary and lifestyle changes and quit placing your life into the hands of doctors who have already been bought out by billion dollar pharmaceutical companies. We can heal this great country one person at a time if we all do our part.
