Comments on: What’s Wrong with Pharmaceuticals? http://openmindrequired.com/blog/2008/11/whats-wrong-with-pharmaceuticals/ For book lovers, seekers, health enthusiasts and thinkers Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:03:48 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Joanne http://openmindrequired.com/blog/2008/11/whats-wrong-with-pharmaceuticals/comment-page-1/#comment-1171 Joanne Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:22:25 +0000 http://openmindrequired.com/blog/?p=757#comment-1171 Yes, I'd rather have a drug than open heart surgery. But I'd rather still eat a whole foods diet and avoid both. It's sad that this pharmaceutical model is all many people know. They don't know they have options. And for those who try to educate themselves, there are so many conflicting opinions. I've been studying health and nutrition for years, and I'd just scratched the surface. I hope with this blog I can help people figure these things out and emancipate themselves from what I consider to be medical tyranny. But I don't think you'll be out of a job any time soon :) Yes, I’d rather have a drug than open heart surgery. But I’d rather still eat a whole foods diet and avoid both.

It’s sad that this pharmaceutical model is all many people know. They don’t know they have options. And for those who try to educate themselves, there are so many conflicting opinions. I’ve been studying health and nutrition for years, and I’d just scratched the surface.

I hope with this blog I can help people figure these things out and emancipate themselves from what I consider to be medical tyranny. But I don’t think you’ll be out of a job any time soon :)

]]> By: Persnickety Curmudgeon http://openmindrequired.com/blog/2008/11/whats-wrong-with-pharmaceuticals/comment-page-1/#comment-1170 Persnickety Curmudgeon Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:43:42 +0000 http://openmindrequired.com/blog/?p=757#comment-1170 Well quite true. Take from a guy who makes his living getting paid for wearing a white coat while taking pills out of big bottles and putting them in little bottles. Still, be careful the either or approach. Many medicines are miracle workers and reduce health care costs by being better and cheaper than many alternatives like major surgery. If it wasn't for the PC police we'd already be using genetic testing to better determine personalized doses and likelihood of side effects. Well quite true. Take from a guy who makes his living getting paid for wearing a white coat while taking pills out of big bottles and putting them in little bottles.

Still, be careful the either or approach. Many medicines are miracle workers and reduce health care costs by being better and cheaper than many alternatives like major surgery.

If it wasn’t for the PC police we’d already be using genetic testing to better determine personalized doses and likelihood of side effects.

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