11-12-2014, 07:08 PM
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Re: Becoming a pill taking nation
Originally Posted by Grumblewagon
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I'm not talking about taking medicines to control / cure a medical condition.I'm more thinking about the mass prescribing of drugs to all and sundry on the notion that they may prevent illness or death at some time in the future.
Who are the 'all and sundry' that are being prescribed medication against their will?
And what 'notion'?
11-12-2014, 07:34 PM
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Re: Becoming a pill taking nation
Originally Posted by Grumblewagon
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According to today's news, Half of women in England are now regularly taking prescription drugs, according to the comprehensive Health Survey for England. Further reading suggests that more and more people should be routinely prescribed drugs. So who is benefitting from this - the patients, the NHS, or heaven forbid, the pharmacutical companies?
11-12-2014, 07:43 PM
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Who said "against their will"? I don't believe that I did, although it did happen to me when a new GP at my health centre wrote to me saying that he was prescribing drugs for me. He had never even met me and I complained to the practice manager.Generally, there are plenty of instances where the routine prescription of drugs is recommended for people who are at a relatively 'low risk' on a statistical possibility that they may benefit.
How many people will actually challenge their GP if they recommend taking a drug purely as a preventative measure?
11-12-2014, 07:51 PM
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Re: Becoming a pill taking nation
Originally Posted by Grumblewagon
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Who said "against their will"? I don't believe that I did, although it did happen to me when a new GP at my health centre wrote to me saying that he was prescribing drugs for me. He had never even met me and I complained to the practice manager.Generally, there are plenty of instances where the routine prescription of drugs is recommended for people who are at a relatively 'low risk' on a statistical possibility that they may benefit.
How many people will actually challenge their GP if they recommend taking a drug purely as a preventative measure?
And preventative medication isn't a 'notion'
11-12-2014, 08:52 PM
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Doctors are (and I think it was a doctor who told me) people who prescribe medicines about which they know very little to people about whom they know even less.Me, I just remain very cynical when it comes to weighing up the possible benefits of some long term medication versus the profit motive of the drug companies.
11-12-2014, 09:50 PM
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Re: Becoming a pill taking nation
Originally Posted by Grumblewagon
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Doctors are (and I think it was a doctor who told me) people who prescribe medicines about which they know very little to people about whom they know even less. .
15-12-2014, 02:29 PM
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Re: Becoming a pill taking nation
Originally Posted by donnamarie
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Grumblewagon, I get what you're saying. Over here in America, it seems the opposite though. At least for me, getting doctors to write me a prescription hasn't been easy.
I'm in the states as well and, in my experience, most docs want to slap a script in your hand for just about anything.
I could call my doctor up today and say something like "I've been having trouble eating because I have no appetite, is there something I can take to stimulate it?" and there will be a script faxed to my pharmacy within a couple of hours.
The only thing she's reluctant to give me too much of (and controls with dates on when the scripts can be filled) is my Ativan. But that's because it's a controlled substance and she doesn't want me becoming addicted. But any other little ailment I may have, she's got a fix for that! LOL
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