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Fox Guarding Hen House
Question:
We rely on the Medical Industry as an authority on how to treat sickness and disease. However since they are in it for profit it seems to me they are going to focus on the most profitable methods. This to me is like having the fox guard the hen house. Here we have an industry that makes a lot of money if they prescribe drugs, and use other patented medical devices and treatments to alleviate the symptoms of disease. If on the other hand they treat the cause of disease with vitamins, herbs, minerals amino acids and other compounds that cannot be patented they put themselves virtually out of business. They wouldn’t choose profitable over what is best for us would they? Well it seems to me this is exactly what’s going on. What about the FDA which is supposed to be watching out for our best interest? Most of there money comes from approving and testing drugs and perhaps some back room deals which makes them beholden to the pharmaceutical industry. He who pays the piper calls the tune. Telstar ****Vitamin C 1gram 3x day keeps the doctor away****
Response:
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – >We rely on the Medical Industry as an authority on how to treat sickness > and disease. However since they are in it for profit it seems to me they >are going to focus on the most profitable methods. This to me is like >having the fox guard the hen house. Here we have an industry that makes >a lot of money if they prescribe drugs, and use other patented medical >devices and treatments to alleviate the symptoms of disease. If on the >other hand they treat the cause of disease with vitamins, herbs, minerals >amino acids and other compounds that cannot be patented they put >themselves virtually out of business. They wouldn’t choose profitable >over what is best for us would they? Well it seems to me this is >exactly what’s going on. >What about the FDA which is supposed to be watching out for our best interest? >Most of there money comes from approving and testing drugs and perhaps >some back room deals which makes them beholden to the pharmaceutical > industry. He who pays the piper calls the tune. >Telstar >****Vitamin C 1gram 3x day keeps the doctor away****
Since I don’t make any more money from prescribing an expensive drug than I do a cheap drug (or vitamin for that matter), you’d have to postulate that I get a big kickback from the pharmaceutical companies. That’s all illegal with big prison sentences, and it’s really hard to see how a drug company gets illegal bribe money to millions of doctors without getting caught at it (what, nobody tells?), but then if you have to believe in that kind of conspiracy, I suppose you have to. Let me see if I can get your argument for the other side: people who push vitamins and alternative stuff for treatment of disease don’t make any money directly from doing so? I don’t sell any line of supplements, but I sure know a lot of chiropractors who do. How, now? Do you suppose the potential for profit influences the advice of these people? Or are they so holy that they’re immune to it? Steve Harris, M.D.