When to say ‘NO!’ to that hot new drug
Dear Reader,
At some point… be it next week, next month, or next year… your doc will give you the hard sell on a new treatment.
Maybe it’s a vaccine that hasn’t been thoroughly tested. (How about that new shingles shot?)
It could be a drug that’s never been proven to save a single life. (Watch out for those expensive new cholesterol drugs.)
Or maybe it’s something mainstream docs have SWORN for years will SAVE your life… only to find out that it doesn’t. (Hello, stents for angina!)
Well, here’s some food for thought before you roll up your sleeve, swallow that pill, or let them plant a foreign object inside of you.
Your doctor is pushing it NOT because it actually IS the best or safest treatment…
He’s just been GUILTED into THINKING that it is!
Guilt trip of a lifetime
The way it works is that if it ain’t published in a peer-reviewed medical journal, it’s witchcraft… voodoo… snake oil… you pick the insult, and they’ll use it.
That might SOUND good. We all want REAL science, right?
But the science isn’t ACTUALLY real.
First of all, the drug companies control the medical journals — and that’s not some looney theory from out on the fringes.
Media – ALL media — is controlled by its advertisers!
Back when I did a speaker’s tour, I’d carry a copy of The Journal of the American Medical Association with me, close my eyes, and pick out the pages that were used to advertise pharmaceuticals.
I’d always be accurate, too, since the main drug ads are on – ready for it? — THICKER PAPER.
More than HALF of the journal would be full pages devoted to selling drugs (not to mention the ads that didn’t take up a whole page).
So much for “scientifically supported!” Pfft.
The mainstream never lets science get in the way of its relentless push to force drugs that don’t work on people who don’t need them.
So, all docs see is what the mainstream wants them to – and if they even DARE to have minds of their own, they get hit with the GUILT TRIP.
“These are the PROVEN treatments. We’re ALL using them. Are you TRYING to hurt your patients or what???”
Add in the fact that since there’s no big profit in non-drug studies, docs obviously don’t get the dough to research studies, which cost a fortune.
The studies don’t get done… and they don’t get published.
It’s an endless loop with EVERY incentive to push drugs and NO incentive to even mention safer and cheaper options.
That’s the system leading up to the moment you walk into your exam room with the doc and innocently ask about your non-drug options – and that’s why he looks at you like you’re nuts.
Oh. You’re one of THOSE people.
I personally know several concerned moms (and have heard of many more) who’ve tried to opt out of having their kids shot up with immunizations… and who get kicked out of the pediatrician’s entire practice for jeopardizing the health of their precious babies.
BRING ON THE GUILT!
Most older patients are much easier. They trust “their” doc, so it doesn’t take much convincing to get them to play ball and roll up their sleeve for the new shingles shot… swallow that new pill… or sign up for that surgery.
And that, my friend, is precisely why we should all be a little less trusting. Remember that your doc might’ve had his passport stamped by the GUILT PATROL… and he might be trying to drag you on the guilt trip with him.
Ask questions, do some homework, and find out what new treatments really offer and what your other options are BEFORE you agree to anything.
