Re: Nutrition vs. taste: Suppressing Symptoms with Drugs

[Guest guest]

Hi Jeanne: EXACTLY!! Many doctors simply treat symptoms with drugs. The drug

industry finances research projects, continuing medical education and

advertising campaigns designed to make patients ask for specific drugs to treat

symptoms. Also drug company reps 'court' doctors with free samples and other

'freebees' designed to influence doctors' choice of treatment, usually with

drugs. Unfortunately the AMA and FDA are highly influenced by drug companies.

So many drugs which have dangerous or even lethal side effects pass through FDA

'screening' and flood the market, before people discover that they get those

supposedly rare, dangerous side effects. Of course, if researchers only test a

drug on 100 patients and one patient dies, the fatality rate is only 1%.

However, once the drug becomes available, thousands of patients use the drug and

the 'fatality' rate increases proportionately.

I believe more doctors should look for causes of patients symptoms, rather than

merely suppressing symptoms with drugs, while the 'cause' continues to damage

the patients' bodies. Also more patients should be their own medical advocates

and look for doctors who treat causes, rather than suppress symptoms.

SUE

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> Sue, don't you think sometimes doctors are too quick to medicate?  That's why

I think your choice of doctors to partner with you on your GI issues is so

great!

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> Jeanne

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