Legal "Drug Pushers"

@AidaLily (1450)
United States
October 26, 2012 8:38pm CST
Today I was speaking with a few classmates in our schools chat system and one of the women there was talking about this new drug that came out that her doctor put her on. She explained that the doctor said it was new on the market and felt it was the best for her. Now this got me thinking about how we have doctors and how they usually seem to push the next medication that comes out or starts to being advertised right away. It led me to thinking about whether or not these people actually know what the medication is capable of or is this some elaborate system to make money for a variety of people. The pharmaceutical company makes the drugs or works to create them in their labs. The doctors are informed of the new product and give side effects. There is the pharmacist who then offers you the same drug or a very similar generic form of it. And lastly should you get a scary side effect or a new test comes through proving the drug to be harmful or cause very harmful effects, you have at least ten different commercials on lawyer services that will help you get the money back or some money if you or a family member was serious hurt or died from it. Does it never occur to these people to fully test a drug before releasing it or do they just want profits? As doctors, should they really be willing to push a new drug they just read or heard about from a seminar or something of the sort? When new medications come out, a lot of doctors may tell you that it will be the best for you. This is very true when it comes to psychiatric medications. A few of the mothers in the family center I belong to would talk about switching from one to another just because a new one came out that was supposed to work better. Do you think that any of these medications really work or do these companies just want to push the newest latest medication when it comes out? If that is the case what makes them any different from a drug dealer in a sense that they are pushing these medications that could ? You could say things like: Well they have a medical degree. However a medical degree does not mean that your doctor would have tested these medications themselves or read up on the medications more. Some primary care doctors will look up the medications in a small book sort of like a dictionary and use that to quickly look up the medication. At the end of the day, some doctors are just 'pushing' drugs they know very little about. They don't always have the time to run through trials and just have to trust what their colleagues have already found even though it could be at the expense of their patients. Do you feel the doctors themselves should spend more time studying the medications/drugs as well before prescribing them to their patients? In the long run could it possibly lead to less malpractice lawsuits if the doctors themselves looked into the medication? Would that lead to less pharmacists with jobs however? Personally if it hasn't been around that long, I will not take it or get a shot of a new vaccine or anything like that. The only exception being the five year IUD I got three years ago.
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