Posted on 06/19/2008 4:05:11 AM PDT by ThePythonicCow
Now I gotta go back onto the treadmill.
follows the script of attacking corporate interests, “Big Pharma.”
I guess you didn’t get much past the Title - sorry to hear that.
The author may as well blame his death on 17 years of sitting in a chair on MTP.
What was his guaranteed life span?
It sounds like medication kept him alive beyond an age at which he would have dropped dead years ago before such medication was available.
What makes me mad is regular poor folks drop dead every day at even younger ages than did Tim Russert and who is running around yelling about them being unfairly taken too young?
I am willing to bet that he was taking Avandia, the drug the FDA should have pulled off the market because it causes a whopping 43% increased risk of a sudden heart attack
This is precisly the reason I DON'T do everything my doctors asks, who is actually a nurse practitioner. They have a pill for everything and sometimes those pills make things worse.
Tim opened his mouth and shoveled it in... no Doctor in the world can stop a person from doing that which they want to do. Tim is responsible for Tim’s death... no one else.
LLS
We are ALL dying and as politically correct as it may be God is still in control of deciding the appointed age at which we do die. It is not our job so much to try to figure out creative ways to delay the inevitable but make the time we were alive evidenced in positive and productive ways.
Right. Russert’s poor lifestyle played no role.
What’s this doctor’s name...”God,” perhaps.
Although I agree that meds are too often pushed in this country, his diatribe against fat is amusing to me because both of my friends who died of sudden heart attacks were the picture of health (fit, lean, and exercise fanatics.)
Control is an illusion!
Run, walk, crawl ‘til you can’t anymore a few times a week from the time you are twenty. There, just eliminated the need for most of the drugs mentioned plus the patient is still alive.
No.
We are doing ourselves a huge disservice by casting all critiques of anything involving big corporations as "just more anti-capitalist propoganda."
Big medicine has grown into more than just healthy capitalism. It pretty much owns major government beauracracies, Universities, research institutes and (via advertising budgets) main stream media.
Whenever anything grows -too- powerful, it tends to become corrupt.
Excessive power does corrupt. Even in the guise of capitalist businesses and constitutional republics.
If we can't criticize such corruption, we are headed for our downfall.
I wonder which package of supplements (available on the website for the low low price) would have saved Russert?
This is just a tasteless ploy by a salesman masquerading as a health expert.
CCN = Certified Clinical Nutritionist ?
I salute you and the writer. This is good stuff and unknown to most people.
Russert needed a lifestyle change leading to significant weight control and stress reduction before he needed anything else.
In saying that obvious truth, we don’t have to condemn modern drug therapy in every aspect. But some of it is part of the problem rather than part of the solution.
If the doctor didn’t know any better, then that’s a problem searching for a solution.
The causes of an individual's death or health care is protected by law under published HIPAA guidelines. That anyone would consider this any of their business is disturbing to anyone who values their privacy. The premise of this article is abhorrent to me.
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