We need to train our medical professionals that we will not be treated like cattle or numbers. We deserve better.I think cattle is the perfect word. Small cogs that keep the medical machine running, with nary a hitch... There is little humanity and almost no compassion in the world of modern medicine. Just look at how the elderly are treated in nursing homes with polypharmacy and then how they are sent to die in hospitals, without adequate diagnoses and concern.
To dismantle the system, one has to start at the top and see how the indoctrination process occurs. Pharmaceutical companies have ties to our best medical institutions and perpetuate the dogma on drugs. It has to begin there.
If our biggest symbol of education in this country (Harvard) is
tainted with pharmaceutical money, you have to wonder just how far the influence extends, never mind our politicians:
The issue exploded this week, when the New York Times published a pair of stories tracking Harvard's industry ties. The school might have turned a whole new shade of crimson when its flunking grade from AMSA was made public last summer, but things got even uglier in November when 40 med students rallied on campus to demand that industry and academia make a clean break. The facts, they argued, justify their outrage. Of Harvard's 8,900 professors and lecturers, 1,600 admit that either they or a family member have had some kind of business link to drug companies — sometimes worth hundreds of thousands of dollars — that could bias their teaching or research. Additionally, pharma contributed more than $11.5 million to the school last year for research and continuing-education classes. The Times covered these details in its stories and included the darning fact that during the November demonstration, a Pfizer employee was on campus photographing protesters with a cell-phone camera. Pfizer did not deny the account but contended that the employee did nothing wrong. (See the top 10 scandals of 2008.) I lose faith in humanity every time I read about
this. What a pathetic and miserable world we live in... Most people bring children into this world only to have them turn into the very same corporate slaves perpetuating this machine.
Post Edited (Guardian7) : 6/5/2014 11:30:32 AM (GMT-6)