Doctor Or Not

I am a selfish person.

"In 1996, for example, Biederman suggested that drugs like Ritalin might serve 10 percent of American kids for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. By 2004, one in nine 11-year-old boys was taking the drug. Biederman and his team also are more responsible than anyone for a child bipolar epidemic sweeping America (and no other country) that has 2-year-olds on three or four psychiatric drugs."

And Then.

"That's why Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley's recent revelation that Biederman did not declare $1.6 million in drug company consulting fees is so important, scary and tragic. If true, this scandal is yet one more stake in the heart of American academic medicine's credibility with frontline doctors like me - and more importantly, with the parents of the patients I deal with every day.

American medicine, with psychiatry the most culpable, has fallen back to a time more than 100 years ago when doctor credibility was tantamount to the promotion of patent medicine. Subsequent reforms severed ties between medical school doctors and the drug industry - and for decades there was a much more ethical balance between the industry and physicians."

Now do we in UK feel that the our good Doctor here is responsible for some of the shite we sufferers have to go through? Well I have been taking dihydrochodeine for over 15 years. I am addicted to the drug. Is there a better way of contralling pain than this? I went to the Pain Clinic in Bristol for treatments. They were better than the GP in finding out what is wrong with me, but the Physiotherapist was in a hurry to get my back sorted. She did not listen to me at all. I had to listen to her very loud voice repeating things and making me feel,"I want to go home, now". They promised a lot but no one person was following my progress. The good doctor who started my treatment left after two months into the treatment. Then it was upto the nurse. She was a good proffessional doing a job which she was not trained for. It will be nice if my doctor has time to read my blog. Hmmm dream on dreamer...


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