Experiment shows medical doctors to be glorified drug dealers, easily manipulated by drug companies

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Here’s some fascinating news in the world of medicine that really
shows the drug racket -- the huge prescription drug scam taking place
in this country today. Researchers sent a group of people, who said
they saw the drug Paxil in a TV advertisement, into doctors’ offices.
Many of these patients didn't even show signs of depression, but when
they named the drug, 50 percent were diagnosed as having depression,
and 55 percent were given a prescription for the exact prescription
drug they named.
In fact, it turns out that when people named Paxil, they were more
than five times as likely to be given a prescription for it than
someone who didn't name it. This simple experiment demonstrates how
many doctors are puppets of the pharmaceutical industry; they're
glorified drug dealers.

I've been saying this for years, as have many others in the natural
health community, but now this experiment clearly demonstrates it.
Medical doctors claim to be scientifically trained. They claim to be
rational people. They say that everything's a formula, so people are
only given prescriptions that are medically necessary. But when a
patient comes in and mentions the name of a drug, all that rationality
and all that so-called scientific thinking gets thrown out the window.
Over half the time, the doctor's just going to write out a
prescription for the exact drug that the patient named, whether or not
it is medically necessary.

In other words, the whole system of prescription drugs and using
doctors is a giant con. When pharmaceutical companies run these
advertisements directly to consumers, they know these consumers are
going to go to their doctor and name the drug, resulting in a sale of
that drug. And that's why direct-to-consumer advertising -- drug
advertising on television, magazines, and so on -- remains legal. It
was illegal, but the FDA legalized it in 1997 to generate profits for
the drug companies that the FDA seems sworn to protect. Since then,
the drug industry and prescriptions have boomed. Now we have more than
40 percent of the population on prescriptions, nearly all of which are
medically unnecessary.

Prescription drugs by themselves are a giant sham, because none of
them treat the underlying causes of ill health. They only mask the
symptoms of disease, or try to interfere with the body's basic
biochemistry. And the real story on these prescription drugs isn't
being told, because these pharmaceutical companies are funding
billions and billions of dollars each year in media advertising.
They're controlling the budgets of these media companies by running so
many ads. Because of this, the media companies out there don't want to
say anything bad about these prescription drugs. continues on page 2
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Ilena wrote in message ...
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In fact, it turns out that when people named Paxil, they were more
than five times as likely to be given a prescription for it than
someone who didn't name it. This simple experiment demonstrates how
many doctors are puppets of the pharmaceutical industry

Actually it shows they give their customers what they want too easily.

"CWatters" wrote in message
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Ilena wrote in message
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In fact, it turns out that when people named Paxil, they were more
than five times as likely to be given a prescription for it than
someone who didn't name it. This simple experiment demonstrates how
many doctors are puppets of the pharmaceutical industry

Actually it shows they give their customers what they want too easily.




LOL. That is what doctors have to believe so they can sleep easily at night.
Pharma med is the biggest hoax of all time

I guess that is what Elvis wanted too.

"CWatters" wrote in message
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Ilena wrote in message
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http://www.newstarget.com/009173.html

In fact, it turns out that when people named Paxil, they were more
than five times as likely to be given a prescription for it than
someone who didn't name it. This simple experiment demonstrates how
many doctors are puppets of the pharmaceutical industry

Actually it shows they give their customers what they want too easily.

Or that they are too inclined to trust patient's judgement when they say
they are depressed enough to want treatment? Such studies tell us little.
Once the decision is made to use an antidepressant, whether through
patient's lying about themsleves or otherwise, why the heck not prescribe
one that the patient has named rather than competing drugs that do much the
same?

I don't think drug companies should be allowed to advertise specific
products directly to the public at all. But both the drug company's main
objective, and the true effect of of most drug company advertising is to
influence the doctor's brand choice of very similar "me-too" drugs, not to
initiate prescribing in the first place. If there is one thing that the
drug companies should be pilloried for is the amount of their resources they
expend upon producing and marketing drugs that do much the same as other
(often cheaper) ones.

There may be may a small secondary effect of over-prescribing when the
public are directly targeted but that could be partly counterbalanced by
beneficial outcomes if a few severely depressed patients are stimulated to
seek treatment.

The overall impact of drug company advertising on doctors prescribing habits
is not necessarily good, but it is also not nearly as sinister as ignorant
journalists and others like to portray it.

Peter Moran