"...herb garden..."
Yes, herbs are for garnishing spaghetti. Also for healing. Healing without side effects.
I already have medical doctors who are friends or family members, btw. And I am neither ignorant nor misinformed. More and more medical doctors are becoming convinced that alternative therapies work and are often superior to their standard procedures.
Attorney's on the other hand... :)
You still haven't answered the question about what "perks" doctors receive from drug companies.
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.
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I am happy for your faith in herbals/CAM and my protest was exaggerated to prove a point. I congrulate you on your knowledge and the helpful role this has provide to you and others. BUT...
Please do not condescend to me after 25 years of schooling/training and 10 years of practice, that you have somehow gained some mystical insight into allopathic medicine that was purposely witheld by my mentors or that I was too corrupted by the Goblins at the drug companies, to see the light. I have no problem with being suspicious of motives and am sorry you may have run across some bad medicine/doctors. However, I spend way too many hours a week educating patients about the medicines I prescribe, for you to use the Lawyer-like cry, "cholesterol lowering drugs are dangerous." Stick to commenting about the herbal/CAM stuff, unless you've taken years of pharmacology, abnormal human physiology, gross anatomy, Cell Biology, and a year of Biochemistry (which makes organic chemistry look like a course in Linkin' Logs). It's immeasurably more complicated than as you put it for BBlockers working by, "weaking the heart muscle." Thanks to charlatans and simple-minded comments, my daily plight to help folks is just that much harder.