RE: Concerning Stats About Our Broken Medical System
Just like in any profession, there are good doctors and bad doctors. Doctors are better when they have a drive to heal people, worse when they become doctors because dad or mom was a doctor, or they just want to make a lot of money.
The health industry, AKA the 'Medical Industrial Complex' is all about profits today it seems. Science has sold out to the highest bidder, in as much as medical research facilities are taking kickbacks to fudge results of testing toward the positive in new drug studies. People will say "that's silly - 'they' just wouldn't do that", but I have read plenty of well-researched articles by sincere and professional independent journalists who beg to differ.
Just look at all the prescription drug commercials on while watching mainstream news at night. Somebody's making a killing.
I agree completely. Just like the big ag industry, they're putting profits before people. I feel like an industry that's so directly related to the overall wellbeing and success of a peoples or society should be FORCED to put people first.
I used to work at an equine hospital (taking care of horses) when there was an influx of colic cases from one specific barn. Turns out they had all been dewormed with one VERY popular brand of dewormer. After treating the horses, calling the company, and getting lawyers involved. This very popular brand of dewormer (created and sold by Merial) had a bad batch. The big pharma lawyers got involved and basically told the owners of the horses that they would pay their horses' medical bills if they would keep their mouths shut about this bad batch. The only reason we could identify it was caused by this dewormer is because over 20 horses went down at the same time. But imagine the 100's of individual horses that colicked and possibly died from this bad-batch dewormer whose owners have no idea it was caused by the dewormer. Left a very bad taste in my mouth for the pharmaceutical companies.