The truth about doctors and pharmaceutical companies

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This is blog post by a doctor that is about a year old, but still very relevant.  I was really glad to read this because he IS a doctor, right now,  and he is not alone in his beliefs about not taking big pharma money.  It might be a minority, but it does mean there is hope for the doctors of the future.

 

https://idmprogram.com/big-pharma-behind-scenes/

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The dirty little secret is that virtually all CME is sponsored heavily by Big Pharma giving them huge influence over what information is presented to doctors.

 

HOW CAN DOCTORS THINK THIS IS OKAY?

 

I was reading Dr. Bennet Omalu's book, Truth Doesn't Have a Side. An excellent book, and he calls this "conformational intelligence." That is, there's a certain belief system that pervades, and the doctors follow it, even if it is not right. It takes a lot of guts for a doctor to step outside the system and speak, and be willing to suffer for their beliefs.

 

Omalu suffered a great deal stepping outside the system and presenting his CTE studies on brain damage resulting from playing in the NFL. The NFL didn't like what he had to say and discredited him. Of course they would, because they're worried about losing money. It turns out that some of the doctors who were turning their backs on what he had to say were funded by the NFL. Even the NIH! He had people following him, people giving him crank calls, doctors turning their backs on him, trying to put him in the background.

 

It's the same with Big Pharma. It's a terrible ruse and affects many, many people.

 

It's horrible what money does. Big money tends to promote big corruption.

 

Thank you very much for this, GreenCup! At least there are some doctors willing to step outside the line and speak out. And luckily this doctor chose to write about it. It's a very good article. Dr. Fung has his mind and heart in the right place, and reading the comments after this article gives me some hope, at least.

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The more I really understand the system, the more angry and depressed I get.  I could rant for an hour about any aspect of it, but the reality is, like everything else, it's a business.  This is what happens in capitalist societies.  Doing the right thing simply isn't a sustainable practice.  Doing the most profitable thing is the only way to stay alive.  Sure, there are plenty of good people within the system...probably mostly every person in it, but the character of individuals has nothing to do with the ultimate goal:  increase revenue for all parties.  Mass poisoning is far too obvious, though they're trying that too, and there's only so many diseases/sick people out there.  Business solution?  MAKE more diseases, MAKE people believe they have them, and MAKE doctors believe that new drugs are the cure.  I'm a schmuck for ever buying into it, but luckily I learned my lesson early.  About a year back, doctors tried to put my stepson on ritalin for "ADHD".  I told him to go fuck himself because ADHD isn't a real thing.  It's not polio; it's not cancer; it's some letters put together by a bunch of people trying to figure out how to make people more productive and how to sell more drugs.  If I have a legitimate medical condition, I'm glad that medicine has advanced to the point it has, but until that day comes, western medicine has zero place in my life.

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The more I really understand the system, the more angry and depressed I get.  I could rant for an hour about any aspect of it, but the reality is, like everything else, it's a business.  This is what happens in capitalist societies.  Doing the right thing simply isn't a sustainable practice.  Doing the most profitable thing is the only way to stay alive.  Sure, there are plenty of good people within the system...probably mostly every person in it, but the character of individuals has nothing to do with the ultimate goal:  increase revenue for all parties.  Mass poisoning is far too obvious, though they're trying that too, and there's only so many diseases/sick people out there.  Business solution?  MAKE more diseases, MAKE people believe they have them, and MAKE doctors believe that new drugs are the cure.  I'm a schmuck for ever buying into it, but luckily I learned my lesson early.  About a year back, doctors tried to put my stepson on ritalin for "ADHD".  I told him to go fuck himself because ADHD isn't a real thing.  It's not polio; it's not cancer; it's some letters put together by a bunch of people trying to figure out how to make people more productive and how to sell more drugs.  If I have a legitimate medical condition, I'm glad that medicine has advanced to the point it has, but until that day comes, western medicine has zero place in my life.

 

 

 

 

 

Terrific post ! I couldn't agree more with what you just wrote here. For me it has gotten to the point I can't even write a post about it anymore because it just upsets me too much and I'm suffering from withdrawals too much at this point to get involved or let alone write a post about this. I just don't have the energy or recourses anymore plus they might call you a "doctor-basher" in here so I just give up. It has become pointless and useless.  But I guess you have written it in my place and I surely second what you've just written in here.

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Thanks for sharing this Greencup. I hate to even think about it being true but I have known this for many years now. Bravo to the doctors who speak out!!

 

Jackie

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Good post. I wish more would come out and tell the truth!

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Good post. I wish more would come out and tell the truth!

 

 

  I have video's of doctors coming out at gunpoint !!!!

 

 

 

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Greencup:  that's good to read about another doctor who understands how dangerous benzos can be.

 

Sean:  I'm glad you advocated for your stepson and kept him off Ritalin.  My son took it for a short time in middle school and ended up depressed.  We stopped it right away but, the doctor wanted to put him on Prozac for the depression from the Ritalin....no way 

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This is blog post by a doctor that is about a year old, but still very relevant.  I was really glad to read this because he IS a doctor, right now,  and he is not alone in his beliefs about not taking big pharma money.  It might be a minority, but it does mean there is hope for the doctors of the future.

 

https://idmprogram.com/big-pharma-behind-scenes/

 

Thanks for posting this wonderful article

 

 

My favorite part

 

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“There is a wonderful treatment that lowers weight, blood pressure and blood sugar with no side effects. It’s called exercise.” Oh, this sounds promising.

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The more I really understand the system, the more angry and depressed I get.  I could rant for an hour about any aspect of it, but the reality is, like everything else, it's a business.  This is what happens in capitalist societies.  Doing the right thing simply isn't a sustainable practice.  Doing the most profitable thing is the only way to stay alive.  Sure, there are plenty of good people within the system...probably mostly every person in it, but the character of individuals has nothing to do with the ultimate goal:  increase revenue for all parties.  Mass poisoning is far too obvious, though they're trying that too, and there's only so many diseases/sick people out there.  Business solution?  MAKE more diseases, MAKE people believe they have them, and MAKE doctors believe that new drugs are the cure.  I'm a schmuck for ever buying into it, but luckily I learned my lesson early.  About a year back, doctors tried to put my stepson on ritalin for "ADHD".  I told him to go fuck himself because ADHD isn't a real thing.  It's not polio; it's not cancer; it's some letters put together by a bunch of people trying to figure out how to make people more productive and how to sell more drugs.  If I have a legitimate medical condition, I'm glad that medicine has advanced to the point it has, but until that day comes, western medicine has zero place in my life.

Wonderful comment.....

We can use our anger to expose as much of the truth as we can,  in our own way.