Turn on, tune in, drop out

Albert Hoffman the father of LSD died t the age of 102. One may argue about drugs and their negative and positive effects but one cannot deny that they influence every one of us daily.

“I take no drugs!” you might say. You are wrong. You do and so does every one of us. The substances differ from person to person but the pattern remains the same.

We look with disgust on junkies on the streets while walking past them on the streets. We might feel simpathy for them even. Then we come home, turn on the TV, tune into our favourite show and drop out for some time.

Doctors Reap Millions for Anemia Drugs

Two of the world’s largest drug companies are paying hundreds of millions of dollars to doctors every year in return for giving their patients anemia medicines, which regulators now say may be unsafe at commonly used doses.

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Since 1991, when the first of the drugs was still relatively new, the average dose given to dialysis patients in this country has nearly tripled. About 50 percent of dialysis patients now receive enough of the drugs to raise their red blood cell counts above the level considered risky by the F.D.A.American patients receive far more of the anemia drugs than patients elsewhere, with dialysis patients in this country getting doses more than twice as high as their counterparts in Europe. Cancer care shows a similar pattern. American cancer patients are about three times as likely as those in Europe to get the drugs, and they receive somewhat higher doses.

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the above are excerpts from a New York Times article, the complete article is here

Well after reading this article I started asking myself in what kind of a sick world do we live here? I have doctors in my family, my grandma is actualy specialized on cancer diseases, while i was growing up i heard lots of discussions among different doctors at our dinner table (yeah well theres nothing in this world which can spoil my appetite if mentioned while eating anymore) and if i recall correctly they were all concerned about the paients health and not his money! ok i have to admit, back then everything was stateowned so the companies which produced medicine couldnt influent the medics that much anyway, because they were already hired by the state. Well anyway…I was used to good medical treatment.

After I moved to Germany and went to a physician for the first time i noticed something very strange…He just took a brief look at me…asked me what i have…Did not let me tell him my symptoms to the end but was already writing a prescription for some med. I was somewhat shocked at this kind of behaviour, but have not given much thought to it back then. After i moved around a bit in Germany and went to different doctors i noticed a pattern. Lots of them are like this. With my mother was the same. Once she even got prescribed a drug which was contradicted to her. The doctor just diddnt botherd to ask. She found out while reading the package insert about that. These were a few examples…

Im asking myself from time to time what kind of twisted world is it we live in? Its like some science fiction move where the world is ruled by huge corporations who own everybody. At least they seem to own some of the doctors…People who are actually responsible for our health (after ourselfes, of course), who ought to help when we are sick, are actually making us sicker for their profit. Patients are to them like items in a factory processing line. The patients are being processed. I mean a doctor to patient relationship is a very delicate one. When we go to a doctor we are vulnerable, we seek for help and we tell him some very personal stuff. From the other POV its the same – someone comes to you looking for help. You cant just process him, just to get as many as posible through the day, in order to have more profit! There are also very good physicians left. I am the last to say that all doctors are evil corporate bastards. But unfortunatly there are only few good ones compared with the evil ones. After meeting some medicine students and talking with them, I started to believe that the ratio good/evil will shift even more towards the evil in the future. I believe to be a doctor is not a job, its more….your whole soul has to be behind it. But if you treat it as a job, well you can be easily bought.

Ok, now whats the point of all of this ramblings? Well dont let yourself be treated as cattle the next time you have to go to a doctor (i hope you wont so soon). If you notice that he starts to process you then force him to deal with you. Inform yourself before you go to him about your suspected disease or something like that…This way you can see if he is actually doing his job. And check all the medicine you get prescribed…I noticed they prescribe here very often new medicine which diddnt undergo sufficient tests on humans. Its then up to you to decide if you want it or not…I dont. The side-effects might be worse than the disease itself.

ok enough for now…id like to write more but dont have the time now…maybe ill udate this post later

greets and stay healthy :)

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haha…the day they wont spit in beijing the world will stop moving :D i mean…the way the situation is, this article could be from a military site and speak about disarmament :D i still believe spitters are one of the best camouflaged chinese army divisions :P