Posted by Nezirov on July 1, 2005, at 19:50:46 [reposted on July 2, 2005, at 0:55:30 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Exercise, vitamins and illegal drugs, posted by Declan on July 1, 2005, at 19:40:58
You've hit the nail on the head : "Firt do no harm". Most doctors don't even understand what that means. Death from medication side effects is one of the leading causes of death in this country, well over 100,000 deaths per year. In the majority of cases the drugs were never needed. And even if the drugs were needed, the "one size fits all" mentality of dosing is absolutely idiotic. Case in point, prozac. Even Eli Lilly showed that it works (and I use the word "works" very losely) at 5 mg/day. But for marketing reasons they bumped it up t 20 mg/day, causing many more side effects to emerge for most people.
N> When I was 17 I needed to believe that this society had soul doctors. I therefore went to see a shrink. I was stubborn about the soul doctor thing, and it was quite some time before I got over it, and went into psychodynamics where I could indulge it. However my contact with psychdrs led me to a 30 year benzo habit, enabled by 70s style Rxing for them. Not really the drs fault, I would have done it and other stuff on my own. But the first rule of medicine is first of all do no harm. In my opinion we'd be better off with illegal drugs, vitamins and exercise. Or maybe I'm just jaundiced.
> Declan
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