Saturday, July 2, 2011

New Research Finds Doctors are Massively Over-prescribing Drugs

Posted By Dr. Mercola | July 02 2011

A new report finds that U.S. doctors are too quick to prescribe drugs, and often give little thought to side effects and non-drug alternatives.

Overprescription is rampant, according to experts. Nearly half of all Americans have used at least one prescription drug in the past month. Many are being exposed to side effects, sometimes fatal ones, even though they are receiving few or no benefits from the drugs.

According to MSNBC:

"Yet many doctors are quick to prescribe a drug, partly because they have limited time to deal with individual patients or because they and their patients have been bombarded with ads from the pharmaceutical industry." See FULL STORY and Dr Mercola Comment

Naw. Say it ain't so.  And a lot of doctors get really arrogant, paternalistic and MEAN about it.  A quick explanatory sentence I came across a long time ago was "I may seem a tad hard to get along with until we come to an understanding that involves YOU LISTENING TO ME".  I had all kinds of troubles with arrogant god-like doctors until I stumbled across an OSTEOPATH

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