What is your opinion of scientific medicine...?
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That's quite a bit to sort through. I'll do my best.\n\nI believe that individual doctors almost always have the best interests of their patients in mind. Medicine as a whole, however, is far more interested in the bottom line. This applies especially to the drug companies. From what I understand certain diseases don't have enough people suffering from them to make it profitable to research treatments for them. Or, if the research has been done, there is not enough profit in manufacturing drugs to treat these people. I've even read that there are boutique chemists who make, by hand, very small runs of certain drugs at no profit to themselves, simply to help out.\n\nAs far as I'm concerned, this is inexcusable. Do I have a solution? No. Are alternative treatments viable? I'm sure that sometimes they are and sometimes they are not. Again, the problem comes down to making a buck. People who are suffering are, unfortunately, easy marks and snake-oil-salesmen have known this since the dawn of civilization.\n\nThe problem becomes sorting the con-men from the well-meaning, but dangerously untrained, from the people with actual remedies. This is very difficult and requires a tremendous amount of work on the part of people who often lack the time and energy to do the necessary legwork because they are sick.\n\nCoretta Scott King died seeking medical help from a quack. It is awful that she suffered such an undignified end, but as long as there are people to be taken advantage of, others will do their best to part them from their money. \n\nObviously not all alternative treatments are quackery, but they often get lumped together because of the actions of a few (many, actually) bad apples. I would suggest that the alternative-therapy industry engage in harsher self-policing as a way to remove the undeserved black-mark.\n\nAs for you responding to questions which are specifically targeted at individuals, I welcome this. The thing that I like most about Yahoo Answers is that it is a place that encourages the free exchange of ideas between anybody. I don't think that anyone can, or should, get upset when a targeted question receives several answers. That's the best thing about this place. So, feel free to throw your two cents in anytime. I really appreciate your response about Bush and Christians. I'd be very curious to hear what this man, who presumes to speak for all Christian Americans would have to say about that. Thanks for your input.
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I agree with you,I use it with doctor knowing it is for medical use,the doctor told me it is better then any medicine to make me feel better and he is right!
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i took pharmacology and it was interesting. It a course about different kinds of drugs. It discusses the affects, the symptoms and the classification of the drug.
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how modern is medicine? never enough. There will be always new viruses (maybe made by huge laboratories), and medicine people will always look for new cures. think about cancer it's been discovered and studied for thousands of years.
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I'll get the ball rolling,  hopefully others will follow.\n\nActually, on second thoughts, take a look here instead.\n\nhttp://v3.espacenet.com/eclasrch?ECLA=/espacenet/ecla/a61/a61.htm\n\nIt is a breakdown of all medical technology into its different subject areas.
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To most MD's we are just cattle, stupid beasts that have to be tended, and are there for them just to make money.  Time is money, I have asked my own specialist for side effects on a treatment he was prescribing and he just mentioned one, turned out I had a real problem with a side effect that he did not mention, and had to resort to webMD to find out what was happening.  You just have to get used to the system and learn to work with it, which makes us different from stupid beasts but makes them closer to sob's.
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Of course.\nI have a really good medical Dr. \nScientology is about a persons spiritual nature. It's basic principle is that YOU are your own immortal soul. Dianetics which came out about a year before Sccientolgy was founded, is about "what the soul is doing to the body" and addresses spititually caused unwnted physical and emotional problems.\nHowever, if a Scientologist needs medical treatment or a medical exam they go to a medical Dr. Dianetics is not medical treatment and is in no way intended as a substitute for it.\nThe issue of child vaccination is one of personal parental choice.In fact any parent has the right not to get their children vaccinated for reasons of conscience.\n Both my kids got all their shots, however, I personally am not certain of the true validity of child vacinations, and even medical Drs have expressed doubts as to whether introducing a weakened strain of some disease causing mico organism into a childs body at a young age to promote immunity, (which is what a vaccination basically is) may not have more overall negative effects than positive. There are certainly plenty of actual cases where this has infact been the result.
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i think that a profesional opinion would be best so c a md.
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Isn't it amazing how medicine has devolved into pure guess work?\n\nI remember a time when doctors actually did tests before prescribing drugs.  But at least Dr. Quack got his cortisone sales quota for the day!
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This is a question for you physician.
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Going to a college that is well-known for it's prestigious med program, I have seen and worked with students who are studying and trying hard for a medical degree. There has been one thing that I have noticed across the board that has made me consider the medical profession in a different light.\nMost of the students who I have seen on the medical track are doing it for the money. Most of them have been told since they were a child that they want to be doctors when they grow up. They have been told that it is prestious and it is something that they should really strive for in life if they want to be successful.\nPersonally, I don't feel that's right. Now, every time I go to the doctor, I think about their possible motivations for choosing their career. Most of the students I work with do not care about the medical aspect they're working with by itself, but are striving towards the degree and profession for the near-guaranteed money and the prestige that they get from family and friends.\nThanks for bringing that up. It's something that I really have thought strongly about and I now always wonder if other people feel the same way.
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If your mind is not set on doing medicine than please dont do it(here instead of heart  I have used mind because to study you need mind & not the heart).The motive of this profession is to save people's life and if you r not completely in it than you cannot do justice to your practice(i.e.not work a doctor never works).
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psychiatry is certainly not a religion.  i have had a very successful experience with psychiatric medicine as have many others.  but i don't have completely blind faith in it.  i know that others do not have successful experiences and need to develop other healthy ways to cope, such as therapy, exersize, hobbies, strong relationships, etc.  there is no reason to fight psychiatry.  it can be good for some people.  we just need to recognize it is not the only answer to mental health problems.
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ANY study can be called a "science". However due to the IMMENSE complexities in the brain, this is far from an EXACT science. But from my experiences (bipolar disorder) I can say YES it is. I at one point was a complete MESS, now thanks to a good mixture of medications and counseling with good people, Im much better.
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Most fav: Internal medicine and psychiatry\nLeast Fav: Clinical laboratory (its about how to design your lab, designing lab investigation forms, lab ethics, lab investigations and everything lab...simply sucks! I am going to be a doctor why give me the trouble to go through what a lab tech should do?)
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Hi Frd_ngo!\nI've heard about the Dr. Edward Wiley. He's a good family man but has a bad habit at the race track. He welshed on a loan so, some goons had to be sent out to collect a payment. When the good doctor couldn't cough it up, they had to tie his fingers together in a most unpleasant way.\nMy girlfriend was unfortunate to be in the waiting room thumbing through the Ladies Home Journal when she had to witness the unfortunate events. I don't know if Dr. Edward Wiley is still practicing medicine or not.\nMason
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Sure it's good. You learn how to heal people, and you can make a lot of money doing so. Plus, your status is instantly raised in the eyes of your peers. Not everyone is cut out to be a doctor, and not every doctor should be a doctor. \n\nI truly believe that while some parents really want their children to become doctors or lawyers, we all have a  genetic predisposition towards our interests in career choices.