Drug Money and Your Doctor

     I am not saying your doctor is doing anything illegal, but chances are he/she is acting on behalf of Big Pharmaceuticals to get their products into your hands. There is an enlightening video on YouTube of an HBO show "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Marketing to Doctors" that is really funny, but filled with some scary truths. In it, he states that drug companies spend more on marketing to you and your doctors than they do on research: an amazing $24 billion annually.
     It is a known fact that the drug producers don't want to find cures for disease, but, instead, want to "manage" them.so the person suffering will have to depend on them and be a repeat buyer. To me, this is criminal, but the government, Big Pharma, and Big Agriculture are all working against us. The system is so corrupt that it is going to take a revolution to change it.
      There is already in existence a group that calls itself The Food Revolution Network that tries to get the word out to consumers. It is run by Ocean Robbins, son of John Robbins, a long time advocate of healthy eating and battler against the introduction of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) into our diet. Why has he done that? Because no one knows how the human body will react to them in the long term.
     Science has already produced corn that has a built in insecticide by moving genes from differing plants into it. If the product will kill insects, what will it do to people? The company producing it claims it is harmless, but who really knows what the effect will be in 20 years.
     The strategies of the drug companies that target you through your doctor are wrapped in glossy paper and tied with pretty ribbons so they appear harmless but are really insidious. They beguile the doctors in many ways using food, sex, and psychology, and track the prescriptions they write so they know exactly how effective their campaigns are. And, the doctors are rewarded if they write enough prescriptions to satisfy the drug companies.
     So, think before you ask for one of the drugs being so heavily advertised on TV, your doctor may have a personal profit reason to give it to you. If he does, he knows you will be back for more. Repeat business is always a good thing, isn't it?