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The family doctor has traditionally been a reliable figure that parents and children alike could trust for good judgment and to oversee their family’s healthcare. Most people just assume that the education and training that doctors undergo assures them that they use the best of their judgment and that the health practices and drugs administered to patients are the unquestioned latest and correct advice.
Unfortunately, this belief in the family doctor is in many ways a misperception. In many instances doctor’s judgment has been compromised by the overwhelming one-sided education they are being given by the giant pharmaceutical conglomerates. The result is unnecessary medication use, poor outcomes and sometimes dangerous results for patients all to satisfy the drug company’s insatiable need to make a buck and keep their stock price up.
From the day your doctor enters medical school his view of the world of medicine is shaped in large part by pharmaceutical companies. Most major teaching hospitals and university medical programs are heavily subsidized by pharmaceutical companies. Tens of millions in grants are given each year for research studies and scholarships to keep medical schools filled. The medical textbooks given to the students and much of the literature and reading material is provided free of charge to medical students and are written by or paid for by drug companies. Is it any wonder then that the first course of treatment for many ailments has been to take a pharmaceutical product?
The first rule of medicine is supposed to be ‘first do no harm’. But in many cases this is not being followed. Instead of medical students being trained on healthy non-pharmaceutical ways to treat common ailments, they are instead taught that drugs are the ‘first line’ of treatment. This not only exposes patient to unnecessary possible side effects from the medications but also causes them and their health insurance company to spend money needlessly.
Of course the pharmaceutical companies prefer this as it means more money for them. Courses in medical school that encourage alternative therapy or even such staples as good diet and exercise are discouraged and instead a ‘treat the symptom not the cause’ ethos has prevailed in large part due to the insidious influence of drug companies. How does this happen?
Nearly every major professor at well known medical schools is given grant money from drug companies. If a professor or academic publishes a paper that is critical of the pharmaceutical practices then they simply are ‘looked over’ and skipped when it comes time for their grants to be renewed. Those who ‘tow the line’ are rewarded with trips to conferences and lavish grants to study yet another new drug.
These professors then get to publish their work in medical journals which are…you guessed it…paid for by the pharmaceutical company. The university likes professors that publish as it is good PR for the university. Published articles are also one of the mandatory linchpins in many universities determinations of professors gaining tenure and pay raises. A vicious cycle then emerges where you have drug companies using this system to promote those professors and researchers that ‘favor’ using pharmaceuticals and those that disagree are simply dropped…first from the grants…then from the publishing…and eventually from the university.
By the time a young med school student graduates and enters his internship at a hospital he has been taught that for most ailments he is likely to see, drugs are the first and best way to treat them. It only gets worse from there. Make sure you stop by www.sedatednation.com and see how a young doctor is even further ‘influenced’ by drug companies once they enter private practice.
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Can AP Euro History credits help me with a medical program and major in bio?I'm taking AP european history this year (sophomore year in HS) and I wanna get into a 7 or 8 year medical program at a good college and was wondering (since the AP test is coming up) that if i get a 4 or 5 on it, does it help me get into a better college, waive college classes, or help me in any way for a bio major? Is studying a lot for this exam worth it if im doing science?
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OmG don't you copy and paste this EVERY day? Are you ever going to stop with your propaganda? The first time I read it, I tried to keep an open mind. Then I saw that you posted it again and again and again. Obviously you are just trying to spread your propaganda.
Your point is well taken, although I believe that the "US medical college anatomy class" story is an urban legend.
This in no way detracts from the question, though!
Before we can let learners "sprint" (find new and exciting discoveries…or explore the world with limited guidance), they need to "crawl" (learn multiplication tables and phonics). If we are going to allow students to explore on their own, we must make the time for them to do it (in ADDITION to not INSTEAD of what they are doing now).
Perhaps year round schooling or longer school days or Saturday instruction is needed. There is a program called "Gifted Child Society" that does just that in the summertime. It is a successful venue for kids to "explore" beyond the "robotic" demands of the pedagogy now embraced.
We should expect more from students and teachers, but it must be a priority (for society and family) if it is to work.
I will support anyone with a way to make this happen.
-Fred
I found the article in the NY times this gentleman is referring.
The practice of medicine comes is not simply the memorization of every single muscle of the body, chemical reaction and disease…if it was then you would be right that we would be robots.
Discovery of new things and ideas are part of medical science, you will never know everything and what you know is right today maybe wrong tomorrow. Remember this throughout your career and take humility in these facts.
Your article was very informative,thank you.
As you may know the media tend to exaggerate on everything(sensationalism sells).
Obviously I can only answer for myself but I believe it is common knowledge in the US.about Iran being a very civilized country,and the people of Iran being very educated.
There are exceptions to the rule, anywhere.
Wish you well
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Must be one heck of a muscle, to never have been found, even by surgeons who operate on that area.
I'm just sayin'
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They used on slightly ineffective method. Allow them to use their own, and the majority would be using many *very* ineffective methods. Methods do change over time, but we need them to be using the best available at that point, not whatever pops into their head at that time.
Scholars who have this level of knowledge then go on to explore new methods.
omg 28 min :O
Interesting……
I am actualy employed by an isralie jew. He has nothing against anyone except palistinians. And he aknowleged that the reason for that is because of the localised fighting for many years.
I am going to visit Isreal in the fall and he has told me many times that it is nothing like the media reports. It is not that bad in Israel.
I also spent time in the Army, And have seen conflict, my father recorded news reports while i was in the service, and the reports was NOTHING like what was reported.
Our media is Paid. The BUSH Admin has been caught 2 seperate times to the tune of 2.2million bucks for fake news releases.
Politicians buy the news for political gain.
If you the people have any sense at all, answer this question.
Why would you spend 30 to 80 million dollars to run for president when the pay in only 1.6 million per term????
We either have the dumbest politicians on earth or they are corrupt!
WAKE UP AMERICA!
I can see that you're very informed of what's going on in your country. Most Americans are totally mis-informed about their own history,not just Iran's'. I'm sure that many folks here on YA won't even read what you put up here in your ques. I'm afraid that our President is making plans for world domination,and the Middle East is square 1. I know that what you say and feel about Iran is true,but the media here are not gonna tell the truth anytime soon ! Anyone with a true sense of history, would understand the many contributions of Arabs throughout history, were important for the development of civilization. Don't judge Americans by what the govt. does or says. We're trapped in this, just as much as you !
Well I'll probably not win here for arguing with you but I must…
as a scientist, the theory parts of science is probably never absolute but it has been tested. Like it or not Science is an orthodoxy that uses complex and universal terminology not so that it can annoy "smart people" like you but to provide a clear definition to international research teams within the sphere of the research area.
Modern experimentation will obviously be limited by various factors such as safety, expense, equipment, man power and scientific knowledge (in rare sitations where an absolute scope of knowledge is nescessary) and in the case above perhaps "INTEREST". The apparatus being used to investigate such phenomenons are also the subject of scientific enquiry and advancement. But let's be real, if a medical student can't cure cancer it's not because of a lack of questioning is it?
Don't confuse "ignorance" with questioning. By all means you have a right to question authority, but don't impose an authority where you have none. Obviously you don't believe in humility and see it as limiting to the human mind. How ever the human mind is limited in it's interests too and in order to solve problems where there is no "personal interest" the human mind needs discipline and or experience in this area to learn about and investigate the problem. Rather than blaming to errors on robotic techiques ask yourself if students were allowed to do what they wanted could they make informed choices or would they do unchallenging things out of the fear of making mistakes and ignore the work that "disinterests" them. No they'd be irresponsible and panic and demand proper education if avaliable.
If people aren't educated into say knowing how to use a MRI machine they could destroy the apparatus and or kill themselves, if they have only their own imaginations to help them with virology they can kill themselves too… this is why standard methods work.
1. They save time
2. They save money
3. They save training in research methods…which probably don't come under the person's job description.
4. There is a lot of information in a focused area to look at.
5. A realistic, feasible alternative method has not been designed yet.
6. It's realiable
7. It's proven to be safe. You don't put human life at risk on a whim
8. There is "experience" in the area which minimises risk,
9. Oh and the world doesn't always work the way you imagine it to or follow one's instincts either.
If medical students are allowed to do what they want they can get sued. In science and engineering you have safety, financial, phyisical constraints and are bound by the area of research you are paid in.
The fact is you want to brainwash people to lack pragmatism, to ignore thousands of years of recorded scientific knowledge, to make people follow their instincts and take unnescessary and costly risks all to make a point. You then invent a robotic dogma yourself of "Scientific method be damned, I'm right" and turn medicine and science into a feral game of ego and pompousness rather than a cognitive effort of problem solving and lose goal focus (because "Proving a point is more important than saving people's lives"). People need to study and work hard to find solutions… that requires standard machines that take standard measurements, standard terminologies for standard communications and standard knowledge to act as the standard platform for standard research.
Even if there's a gap in the literature they need the literature to reference said gap!
People learn from their mistakes, Can you learn from yours?
P.S Medical students are not trained to be anatomists in their first year and I severely doubt that the world's supply of research anatomists missed a single muscle on the body. The problem was here that the literature wasn't holistic and the lead surgeon had problems instructing his team, maybe because they had delusions of grandeur and think they've got the scientific knowledge to be a maverick because they watched a couple of episodes of House MD or something.
Obviously you're saying that if Medical students experimented rather than following standard texts they'd be happier and make less mistakes…funny but I don't think Humans are designed with a holistic knowledge of their own anatomy. Otherwise, what would be the point in anatomy books?