Nice to see O'Bama working on getting rid of midnight Bush rules

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[. . .] in the face of alternative evidence, who cling to your own definition. You want to attach the field of medicine to "improving the quality of life" for some reason. I think a well running automobile, a fat bank account and a clean house improves my quality of life. It is a vague notion that can apply to almost anything.

For some reason I got the image in my head of soldiers on the battlefield who have wounds the doctor knows will kill them, so the doctor gives them a shot of morphine to ease their pain before death. I also got the image in my mind of the liberal doctors here in California whom prescribes medical marijuana for aliments - sure it alleviates the pain, but provides a high also.

I keep hearing you saying, "improving the quality of life" is too broad a term for medicine, however as you know, definitions change over time. Gay once meant happy and glad, but you won't hear it iterated that way now. Hark use to be used as a word to Stop, and Listen, but now can only be heard in songs. Modern dictionaries now have LOL as a freaking word! Definitions change, and with the investment of quite literally billions - maybe even trillions - of dollars spent on ads here in the US alone, you got to think for a second that advertisments actually works. With SO MANY medicines being advertised to "improve the quality of your life," you don't think even for one second that maybe the definition of medicine has changed over time? Last I checked, the definition of marriage was unity between a man and a woman, but it's slowly being restructured to mean unity between a person and another person. Hell, in time, I may be able to marry my own dog. That's the nature of our society in this day and age, for better or worse.

My mother in-law sees a variety of doctors quite frequently. She is constantly trying to believe something is wrong with her, but really is just using her doctor's notes as an excuse to not feel like herself. She has meds for depression, staying awake, loosing weight, blood pressure, you name it. She believes she has these ailments, but the scary part is these doctors are egging her on to either try different medications, or to stay on her current ones. We've been on trips before where she forgot her meds for over three weeks and was perfectly fine without them, but she has this need, this fear that she can't live without them. I've told her this but she won't listen to me, and do you know why? Because some medical professional tells her to not stop talking her drugs, but I’ll tell you her pill popping is definitely taking a toll on her body.

And she's not the only one; my wife use to take anti-depressants and Ritalin because her doctor “felt” my wife needed them, and when my wife became pregnant, the doctor told my wife not to stop taking them or she might become even more depressed and tired. I told him to f*** off and told her to stop taking them and start exercising instead and guess what, she felt better, happier, and healthier ever since. The power of the mind is a wonderful thing and the best healing tool there is, but despite what you believe kandrathe, doctors will prescribe anything using fear as a catalyst to sell their product and get a few extra $$$ in their pocket. I'm sure their logic is, "if it won't hurt the patient, and there is a slim chance they might need it, and they have insurance, why not"? I’ve seen it before; I see it all around me - my wife and her mother are not the only ones. I quite literally know of at least twenty-plus girls that have been put on anti-depressants for no reason other than they were having a bad day. And kandrathe, don't even get me started on the abuse of Ritalin in minors, and the greedy doctors that prescribe it too them. Get off your high horse for a second to smell the flowers your trampling, or do you choose to ignore this post also? If scoff at your remark of medicine being used only to heal. Get over yourself.