Unless you are seeing a quack or the patient is a hypochondriac, I doubt your doctor is writing prescriptions just for the fun of it. The patient obviously needs the medication or they wouldn't be seeing a doctor.
"I doubt your doctor is writing prescriptions just for the fun of it. The patient obviously needs the medication or they wouldn't be seeing a doctor."
Ok, trust your doc. Any doc. They all live by the Hypocritical Oath.
For instance...
He prescribes cholesterol lowering drugs - but cholesterol does not cause heart attacks. And cholesterol lowering drugs are dangerous.
He prescribes drugs for an irregular heart beat (Beta Blockers, as an example). Beta Blockers try to control the irregular heart beat by weaking the heart muscle.
And then we get into the deals where he prescribes one drug for one thing, then has to prescribe another drug to try and control the side effects of the first one. This goes on, and maybe you have 3 or 4 prescriptions now because he prescribed the 1st one. Now the drug companies really like him, and he gets even more perks for writing prescriptions.
And by the way, I have an irregular heart beat. I control it with a Hawthorn-Lily extract. Hawthorn berry extract strengthens the heart, reduces blood pressure, helps keep the cardiovascular system humming like it was created to do. And Lily extract controls the irregular heart beat. Of course, the doc's don't like that approach because you can 'do it yourself' and the drug companies like it less because they aren't selling prescription stuff.
I had a basal cell carcinoma on my face, just below my left eye. The doc wanted to do surgery. Instead, I chose self treatment - in six weeks the tumor was gone. Cost of treatment - approx $15 - with enough stuff left to treat a dozen or so more. And by the way, no scars. (About 15 years ago I had one on my forehead surgically removed - Moh's procedure - followed by plastic surgery to fill in the hole. It left a fine line scar.) The bill was about $700.
A friend of ours has no thyroid - her doctor decided she had thyroid cancer and removed it - oops, no cancer. Also, no thyroid. The thyroid hormone they put her on causes more problems than it helps and she has a lot of problems now. Thank you, Mr Doc.
Another friend of ours is near death in a well known Cleveland medical establishment - they have been treating a cancer in his neck with chemo and radiation. He is not near death from the cancer - it is from the treatment. Many cancer patients die - not from the cancer, but from the radiation or the chemo.
I also know that many oncologists have opted out of the 'system', refusing radiation/chemo for their own cancers, choosing alternative, natural cures instead. They have seen the deadly effects of conventional treatment. But they can't opt out for their patients or they will loose their 'hospital privileges'.
So ok, trust your doc.