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Originally Posted by All Darc
In my country doctors do all s... around and are rarely punished... it's a sort of mafia here.. and still suicide a lot more than average. Also steal a lot of hospitals and and services... fake works day to get paid for what didn't made, are paid a by given labs to prescribe a lot of a given drug...
A brazilian ginecologist rapped nearly 60 women (that was discovered so far) and other doctors knew for years he did that, but did nothing about.
A orthopedist harassed a lot of patients, had charges made by patietns, but nothing happened to hin until a TV station got hin with hidden cameras. Latter he tried toi sue the TV station.
Doctors have big egos, and have few tolerance to patients... and got anoyed easily.
Drug adiction are also higher between doctors, and it start on medicine schooll, as it's a fashion for many of them.
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That's a product of a poor regulatory environment, not necessarily inherent to the medical profession.
Also, drug use in med school isn't fashion. It's a coping mechanism. People in high stress occupations are more prone to taking drugs, whether legal (caffeine, tobacco, etcetera) or illegal, to cope.
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Originally Posted by All Darc
The documentary was tendenious, I said it after post it . The guy who made itbelieve AIDS/SIDA are not HIV related. He is crazy.
But the industry indeed have a dark side. They do not work for good of mankind, but for profit. Research to create chronic treatments instead of cures for diceases.
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All industries work for profit. And yes, drug companies put profit uber alles.
But to say that drug companies research chronic treatments instead of cures is incorrect. You have multiple competing companies working on palliative treatments, maintenance medicines and outright cures on a lot of major diseases. Nobody is aiming low. The first company that develops a vaccine or cure for a major disease often has an advantage... a window in time... wherein it can dictate terms and pricing for its sale to governments around the world.
You develop a vaccine for SARS or H1N1, and you've got a few years where you're the sole supplier of vaccines globally, with the chance of making billions in sales.
You develop a "cure" for cancer, and you stand to make even more.
Aiming low makes no sense. You aim low, develop a treatment that will only prolong survival of but not cure a patient, then you're sod out of luck when another manufacturer finds a cure.
That's like building a disposable toaster that only lasts a few weeks, hoping people will keep buying them as they break... right before someone else builds a toaster that lasts for years. (yeah, yeah, modern appliances don't last forever... but nobody is going to buy a toaster with half-inch thick coils that last forever but use a hundred times as much electricity to toast your bread)