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Murder By Medicine

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Believe it or not, after I thought of this title, I realized it was catchy and did a search on it to see if it has been used elsewhere. It has. A doctor left her practice because she could no longer stand the fact that many people are dying because of medications that are being given. Her story is here:

http://www.freedomizerradio.com/blog/2014/05/murder-by-medicine-dr-jennifer-daniels/

The very people we rely on to save our lives are sacrificing us on the altar of profit. Want to know how much Big Pharma is paying your doctor? Check here: https://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/.

Dr. Daniels wants to give colleagues the benefit of the doubt. I have no doubt.

Hereā€™s the Medicare numbers: https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/

One of my doctors is living a really nice life. Iā€™m glad I never let him convince me to take that drug he was touting for Multiple Sclerosis. He made a few bucks on that one. But it can elevate blood pressure, and there is a 50% chance that elevation will be permanent. I like my blood pressure just fine, thank you.

Everyone seems to be out to make a buck these days. Many are doing it by plugging a hole in a disease with drugs that open up ten others. Iā€™ve been through the mill with such practices. I think Iā€™m done.


Now remember.Ā  I always go on the supposition that I am not unique.Ā  If this kind of thing can happen to me, it is probably happening to others.Ā  Our facts may differ, but there is, most likely, similarities in our stories.
So here goes.


On September 1st, 2016, I started taking a drug touted to me by my neurologist and her sidekick neuropsychologist. I was beginning to have difficulty grabbing words out of my vocabulary.

ā€œThis drug,ā€ the psychologist said, ā€œwill impede the progression of that processā€”stop it dead in its tracks.ā€

That drug was Aricept. It was considered to be an off-label use. It impacts the brain, and damn did it impact my brain and most of my other organs. I dutifully opened the prescription bottle each and every day to take my dose. By the end of December, I was toast. I experienced rabid insomnia, constant diarrhea, and too many other side effects to mention.

My first bout with the hospital had me instinctively calling my neurologist.

ā€œI have patients to see,ā€ she loudly declared.

The mouse in my mind whispered, but I thought I was your patient. Hell followed.

I entered the hospital two additional times until another doctor finally took me off the drug in May because he felt it was causing muscle spasms, but that wasn't the worst of it. No doctor I had seen even questioned that drug as being the source of my problems. They simply added more drugsā€”one of which incited temporary blindness. I caught that one quick. I was starting to learn. During my first bout at the hospital, I was put on a combination of drugs by a Nurse Practitioner that causes pre-renal failure in women in my age group. I just happened to distrust that bloke enough to stop the mix after five days. Is my kidney function impaired? Somewhat, but hereā€™s hoping.

In October of last year, I fell. Perhaps you read https://www.bebee.com/producer/@joyce-bowen/the-saga-of-cracks-la-saga-de-las-grietas. I made the mistake of grinding to my feet and going home to ensure I was truly hurt. When I finally relented and went to the doctor a few days later, I asked for help and was denied. Complications ensued, my good knee went bad, and instead of help, I got this: //www.bebee.com/producer/@joyce-bowen/needham-7-some-other-place-in-cambridge-ma-and-thank-the-lord-for-2018. Iā€™ve slowly come to the conclusion that a paycheck was in the offing. I had assets that could be liquidated. Instead of putting me in the hospital to fix my knee, they tucked me under failure to thrive. Now thatā€™s nursing home fodder. Canā€™t take care of yourself? Weā€™ve got just the hellhole to stick you in. My question is this: Does the hospital dumping you in one of its four affiliate hellholes get a piece of the action? The only way to acquire compassion these days is to have a fat enough bank account to pay for it and keep the vultures awayā€”I mean the two-legged kind.

Luckily, I escaped.


We were once patients. We are now paychecks. When I asked one doctor when medicine went in the shitters, he said, ā€œAbout the 80ā€™s.ā€ From my point of view, itā€™s been at least from the 60ā€™s.

I chanced upon a woman on my way out of a building housing one of my doctors. She spoke of her husbandā€™s death. He had had cancer, and he and his wife had been told some miracle drug would save his life. What a heartache. As the husband slowly wound towards death, the wife told the staff, ā€œHeyā€”heā€™s dying!ā€ The equivalent back was turned; falsified compassion withdrawn, and the man died. Buck made and the body simply became the meat on a slab it always was.

Dr. Vinay Prasad is trying to raise the alarm on the ineffectiveness of these drugs. www.vinayakkprasad.com. Theyā€™re expensive, of course, and professionals gain access to fancy clothes and buckets of champagne.

Netflix stocks a few terrific documentaries about doctors, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices. Donā€™t take my word for itā€”watch them. The word is there.

https://www.netflix.com/title/80104330 Attacking the Devil--the Thalidomide storyĀ 


https://www.netflix.com/title/80170862 The Bleeding Edge--medical devices


There is a newā€™s story on a doctor enriching himself through bad medicine here: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/whistle-blower-helped-expose-michigan-cancer-doctor-mistreated/story?id=32369291


https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=46&v=aRBvMQBucxg


As long as there is a living, breathing, warm body, a bank account can be stocked. And these entities have essentiallyĀ inured themselves from consequences by taking charge of our legal system. The only way out for the little guy is doing his/her own research.


White-coat syndrome has taken on a new meaningā€”be afraidā€”be very afraid.


And by the way...Ā  I hear the FDA gets 40% of its budget from Big Pharma and the Medical Device industries.


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Comments
#26
Ian Weinberg I'm actually waiting for intake into a Functional Medicine practice. I really didn't mean to throw out the baby--I just got sick and tired of being sick and tired and presented with no options. Happens in the US. If you're past a certain age, the million dollar work-up is a no-go. I feel healthier, pain-free and better than I have in a long time going Pharma-Free. Going to the doctor sort of makes me shiver now.

Ian Weinberg

5 years ago #18

In so many ways weā€™ve come unstuck Joyce \ud83d\udc1d Bowen Brand Ambassador @ beBee But we shouldnā€™t toss out the baby with the bath water - thereā€™ve been some great pharma and technological developments over the past 30 years. Best wishes.

Cyndi wilkins

5 years ago #17

Bottom line from 'Murder By Medine"... "If the FDA says something is safe, it doesnā€™t matter if that decision is wrong or the result of lies, fraud or deception on the part of the worldā€™s pharmaceutical companies. And thereā€™s no way to sue the FDA for being wrong and costing millions of unsuspecting Americans their lives. That result leaves 240 million Americans unprotected from an industry responsible for more preventable deaths in the US than any other cause." You're absolutely right Joyce \ud83d\udc1d Bowen Brand Ambassador @ beBee...be afraidā€”be very afraid.
#11
Change is Constant, kim wheeler. Damn, I hate change. We just need to keep up with those changes.
#10
I believe doctors now serve themselves. The entire system has been corrupted. And, of course, if something goes wrong with the patient, it's now the patient's fault. You might sat that is true. Patients often blindly trust in doctors--in a system that has changed tremendously over the years.
#9
Hey, Ken Boddie, Thanks. But I'm feeling a hell of a lot better after discontinuing a few medications. I googled them for side effects, and what do you know? Most of what I suffer from is just that. Let's just hope all will reverse.
#8
You, too, should watch "The Bleeding Edge," Bill King. It puts a whole new spin on things.
#7
You should watch that video, "The Bleeding Edge," Pascal Derrien. It's actually much worse than all that.
#6
I think the almighty buck is to blame, Ali \ud83d\udc1d Anani, Brand Ambassador @beBee.
#5
Thank you very much, Debasish Majumder.
#4
Agreed, CityVP \ud83d\udc1d Manjit
#2
I hear you, Edward Lewellen. Think I'm through with medicine for a while. Feels no different than going to a morgue.

Jerry Fletcher

5 years ago #7

Once again we see the dollar bleeding away the courage to serve the patient. Let me get this straight, We don't want a single payer heath insurance system that is run by the government and will pay doctors and pharma for cures rather than actions because "the quality of patient care will be diminished." I'm not buyin' it. And so it goes.

Ken Boddie

5 years ago #6

Sorry to hear of your continued health problems, Joyce, but Iā€™m glad youā€™ve taken the time to set out this well researched post as a warning to others to carefully check out potential side effects themselves. Personally I suffer from a rare condition called ā€˜good healthā€™. The pharmaceutical companies havenā€™t, as yet, figured out a drug to treat this, but Iā€™m sure theyā€™re working on it. By the way, Joyce, itā€™s a good thing that pharmas didnā€™t invent the light bulb, or weā€™d all be changing them three times a day before meals. Keep smiling!

Pascal Derrien

5 years ago #5

Great thoughts backed up by personal experience I am actually in two minds I recognize the deviant techniques but I am also amazed at the progress in major fields now like you I concur and despise tier 2 and tier 3 medication with very dubious outcome or benefit great to have you back here Joyce \ud83d\udc1d Bowen Brand Ambassador @ beBee šŸ˜€

Ali Anani

5 years ago #4

WE are no more patients as we are paychecks. A cruel fact as you stated Joyce \ud83d\udc1d Bowen Brand Ambassador @ beBee and who is to blame? The society, the educational systems, or whom? Who spoiled and what spoiled a great profession?

Debasish Majumder

5 years ago #3

madam if you asked a doctor that despite cornea of your eyes having no blood vessels yet how they get their food, i guess no doctor can answer. don't believe a doctor please. they are just briefed by multinationals only to look their interests. like is short, but doctors alone have the capacity to make it shortest. lovely buzz Joyce \ud83d\udc1d Bowen Brand Ambassador @ beBee! enjoyed read and shared. thank you for the buzz madam.

CityVP Manjit

5 years ago #2

If the law does not come down hard on pharma practices, unfortunately the consequences of this mentality will remain pervasive. At least I will give credit to pharma companies to make the most of personal branding from a view to profit from drugs. http://www.pharmacompliancemonitor.com/are-sales-reps-in-pharma-hired-solely-for-their-sex-appeal/8820/ The link I have attached begins with the words "there is no such thing as a free lunch or an ugly drug rep" - and while regulators have threatened pharma companies to improve their practices and Big Pharma has paid massive fines, it goes to show how lucrative this business is when Pharma still use exotic locations for medical education and hot reps and why the word drugs should have a different meaning to the word "medicine".

CityVP Manjit

5 years ago #1

If the law does not come down hard on pharma practices, unfortunately the consequences of this mentality will remain pervasive. At least I will give credit to pharma companies to make the most of personal branding from a view to profit from drugs. The link I have attached begins with the words "there is no such thing as a free lunch or an ugly drug rep" - and while regulators have threatened pharma companies to improve their practices and Big Pharma has paid massive fines, it goes to show how lucrative this business is when Pharma still use exotic locations for medical education and hot reps and why the word drugs should have a different meaning to the word "medicine".

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