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Rajjpuut's Folly on Saturday, July 11, 2009 4:32:03 PM
At the FDA they’ve long forgotten it’s the public they’re supposed to be serving.
The Hippocratic Oath says, “First Do No Harm” . . . indicating that 90% of the time, doctors could be sued for malpractice for prescribing drugs they know can do enormous harm according to the official list of side effects.
Drug Culture Created by the FDA
and Big Pharmaceutical Companies
Endangers Citizen’s Health
We all know that Obama plans to put a new health care system in place. Most of us know that it’s doomed to failure at huge expense, (personally and economically) to the country . . . here are the reasons why:
A. Government spending programs seldom work.
B. The two earlier programs, Medicare and Medicaid, did not help and only made health and cost trends already in place much worse.
C. And mostly because, the President is NOT expected to address FDA re-organization or FDA clean up in his new program: huge mistake, HUGE!
D. Additionally, as far as is known, the President is not expected to address a single one of the points brought up by health educator Rajjpuut in his blog series “A Far Better Health Care Alternative.”
The Hippocratic Oath, which doctors swear to, says “First Do No Harm” . . . since study after study indicates that 70% of the expensive drugs Americans take actually have “no effect,” and all drugs created, that means 100% of them, have proven and listed side effects: arguably from 90%-100% of instances when a doctor prescribes a drug for a patient, he is at least technically, if not in fact, breaking the Hippocratic Oath. America is a drug culture. People believe health and happiness comes in bottles. The information found in this paragraph is highlighted because of whistle-blowers who in study after study say that internal memos and other documents generated by the drug companies themselves reveal pretty much those same two sad statistics.
When it’s also considered that a huge percentage of drugs are only designed to mask or alleviate symptoms but NOT to cure any underlying conditions and all these drugs too have annoying, dangerous and/or deadly side effects . . . the magnitude of the problem becomes clear. The FDA, by approving these palliatives and their side effects is making America’s health problems worse. The fact that drug companies now have the option to legally bribe** the FDA to expedite putting the drugs on the market has exacerbated an already horrendous problem.
Additionally, consider this . . . the FDA has known for over thirty years that high cholesterol levels are NOT associated with heart attacks and that lowering cholesterol does NOT cure any actual medical condition; yet they say nothing to the American health care industry, refuse to remove the drugs from circulation and thus continue to help the drug companies rip off the American public. It's one of their biggest shams because statins (cholesterol lowering drugs) are some of the most dangerous, very expensive and totally unnecessary drugs. "First Do No Harm!"
PPIs (proton pump inhibitors) likewise are drugs for no real disease. So-called “Acid Reflux Disease” is an invention of the drug companies. If you have persistent heart burn, nine times out of ten you have too little stomach acid NOT too much. PPI’s actually make virtually all heartburn problems worse and they have recently been proved addictive. Taken with over-prescribed anti-biotics, PPIs can decimate the healthy stomach biota and create a horrendous and deadly dysenteric condition called “c. dificile” which kills older Americans quite frequently. And PPIs are strongly suspected of causing serious bronchitis and even pneumonia. "First Do No Harm!"
Need Rajjpuut mention that statins are the single most profitable drugs of all time and PPIs are very nearly as profitable?????? Of course a more horrendous example of FDA corruption is the conflict of interest that lead to the Celebrex (used for osteoarthritis; rheumatoid arthritis and painful menstruation) disaster in the first place and that same conflict of interest has kept that deadly drug on the market right up to the present moment with extra warnings added to its packaging. “First Do No Harm,” indeed!
Depending upon who’s doing the study, iatrogenic deaths (death caused by medicines; doctors’ and nurses’ errors; hospital errors; etc.) rank as either the third or fourth greatest killers of Americans: “First Do No Harm” indeed!! And the biggest danger lies in the medicines themselves . . . every single one of them approved by the FDA. You are ten times more likely to enter a hospital and three and a half times more likely to die because of a prescription drug reaction then from an automobile accident. The root of a huge percentage of the American health care mess is 100% linked to the evil we call the FDA. "First Do No Harm!"
At the FDA they’ve long forgotten it’s the public they’re supposed to be serving but the President, congress, and the American Public needs to remember that key fact RIGHT NOW! President Obama, FIRST DO NO HARM: re-organize and clean up the FDA before making any other health care change!
Live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
** the correct term is "bribe" but the FDA calls them "expedited evaluations" or "expedited reviews"
Regular readers of Rajjpuut’s little rants will recognize a strong personal antipathy toward the FDA (Food and Drug Administration). That once great organization created in 1906, the very year that Upton Sinclair’s monumental novel/expose` “The Jungle” hit the bookstore shelves, has degenerated into the most corrupt federal organization in America. Rajjpuut, health educator he, believes that only a complete top-to-bottom remake of the FDA will allow any health care plan, now or in the future, any hope of success.