But can you also understand that many medical professionals are essentially trained in situ by drug reps?
A big chunk of our social circle is comprised of medical professionals.
Medical professionals go through school to learn physiology. Afterwards, when they go to work, they prescribe (sell) drugs and procedures. Because that’s how everyone makes money.
Most of them don’t fully grasp the fact that they are de facto drug dealers because they’re so overworked they don’t stop to think about it.
When the drugs don’t work, they sell excessively expensive procedures. They don’t see it as selling, but that’s that they do.
This is cynical and inaccurate. Drug therapy is often used as an alternative to invasive procedures.
You left out other treatments such as nutrition, including dietary supplements. Also physical, occupational, and cognitive therapy.
I would not describe life saving heart procedures like balloon angioplasty, by-passes, and valve repairs or replacements as excessively expensive. Nor are they due to failures of medicines.
The leading causes of advanced heart disease are probably genetic and tobacco addiction.
I am old enough to remember when we were told the huge tobacco taxes and settlements were justified to pay for the costs of smokers illnesses.
The main causes of cancer appear to be smoking, environmental pollution, and genetics. Drug therapy and procedures tend to go hand and hand, depending on the type, stage, etc.
There is room for reform in the area of price gouging by drug companies in particular. That is another story. We need national health insurance.
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