What if patients had to sign a waiver whenever they took a pharmaceutical? What if they were offered a second opinion, or had to sign a statement that they refused it?Waivers were very popular in the late 1970s, a simple (and obvious) answer to the lawsuit crisis.
Unfortunately, by the mid-80s, courts were ruling consistently that you could not waive your right not to be mistreated.
The irony...I look around me at my senior citizen peers, and what's going on is appalling. Everybody's getting new knees, new hips, sometimes both. They're being convinced they need Adderall or some other killer med and sleeping pills and cholesterol medication and blood pressure medication and that's the healthy folks.
I have to assume most of it's for a reason. But I just can't believe that so many healthy people who've led such healthy lives are that needy of medical manipulation.