03-02-2009, 06:55 PM
Quote:Then no one who has a conscience will be a medical practitioner. You will always find a limit beyond which most people will not go, and this is doubly true in medicine. The duty of medicine is not to "improve the quality of life", it is to heal.
Riiight. So all those ads I see in the papers to "improve your sex life with Viagra," all the ads to "feel better," for preventative measures, etc... this is to heal? I don't think so. In America, medicine is all about $$$ and don't forget it. I know plenty of people who go down to Mexico to get Somas and Vicadin for a very cheap price, whereas here in the states, they'd have to shell out an arm and a leg to pay a doctor and pharmacist if they didn't have insurance. Why can't I buy my meds from Canada? Why can't I get Viagra or the morning after pill hassle free over the counter like they can in other countries? Get real kandrathe. It's all about $$$ here.
For some reason this reminds me of my dog. He has a chronic itching problem. We've tried every kind of alternative food there is for him, but he still starts smelling really bad then itching; his skin becomes swollen so he can barely open his eyes and he is miserable. We have go to the vet for medicine, and they know he needs a steroid/histimie blocker on a regular basis, but every time we go, they prescribe a steroid/histimie blocker pill with a tapering effect, as if his symptoms will magically dissappear overnite. But of course as soon as his meds run out, he starts itching again and becomming swollen. What logic is there in prescribing this tapering effect for steroids when you know the patient won't improve without chronic useage? Of course, so we have to bring him back in to get a full "check-up" and pay the $60 visit + pill cost. It's all about $$$ for doctors, even vets, and don't forget it.
"The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self." -Albert Einsetin