1) Docs should be able to prescribe ANy medication they think will help a patient, provided the patient is FULLY aware of any risks and gives consent
but many docs can/do pressure patients, see that all the time, so that's an issue
but end of the day, provided a doctor has
good reason to think a patient maybe helped, then it's entirely between them.
if a patient is dying or suffering without relief, risk taking is valid, what have they to lose? provided again of course, of full honesty and agreement.
Practical medicine is an art as much a science, it is about
Humans, not machines, not DNA etc. And from the science, the sheer complexity of Human variance is to large for harsh deliniation/rules except in broadest or precise ways.
IE, one treatment may work for one, not for another...but we all have
base physical similarities.
Thus, compassion an forebearance should apply
Patients are NOT "consumers", dear God, I hate that evil shit of trying to make suffering people into cash cows, ugh
Neither are they guinea pigsm the appalling evils done in the last century were never properly dealt with because "doctors are demigods" etc, sigh.
yet, a
good doctor is a wonderful boon and deserves highest respect.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
2) the pharma corps are scum, they have huge systems of, let's be honest about this, out right bribery, manipulation and cover up safety issues and other factors as their typical
Modus Operandi!
Even medical journals etc are now expressing this issue openly as the
majority of drug trials linked to pharma corps are not trustworthy/falsified/biased!
if this was any other group, they would be hunted down by the FBI, etc, considering the number of deaths, they'd be waged WAR on, actually. Why are we doing drone kills on nutbars in Afghniastan, when scum in our nations are killing huge numbers and driving our systems to implosion?
Vioxx killed 18 times more Americans than 9/11 did! So what did they get? after massive outcry and pushing finally they get a fine (less than their profit they made!)...but no one is in jail or death row as they should be.
In the UK what happens? well our government spreads their legs and greases up for GSK, Merck etc!
Can't be nasty and investigate/prosecute major campaign contrinutors, or folk the government ministers will work for after they leave office, are related to or have shares in *pukes*