Intelligent design (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, November 04, 2011, 01:23 (4769 days ago) @ Abel

The practice of medicine (the noblest profession) has been weaponized. Our pharmaceutical industry routinely extorts their living from our dying while our politician and theologians are silent (some do applaud). Perhaps it is just me, but this seems to violate that high ideal of "doing no harm" when it financially cripples the families of our sick and dying so that they cannot afford to feed and shelter themselves much less those they love.

The cost of doing 'effective drug' finding is extremely expensive. The Pharmas must have their labs supported so they can find those drugs, and yes, those folks are in business to make money, but so are MD's. For some reason we all need money to live, including the poor. The solution is a safety-net program for the indigent and poor so their medication is adffordable. We can't afford to kill Pharma or we won't have new treatments.

Though cancer can currently be cured with cheap, unpatentable medicines, those medicines have been financially "orphaned" while expensive new analogs of these drugs are developed. Millions of people in agony die every year simply because no one can yet exploit their suffering.

The real problem is 'orphaned' illnesses, where so few folks have the disease, no one company wants to search for a cure, because there is no profit in it. Here government subsidy of PHarma is a must.

Since it seems to be your intent to become a doctor, these words to might guide you in perfecting the practice of your profession. I sincerely wish you the best of luck in the field.

I've had my luck, thank you. I was a practicing internist-cardiologist for over 30 years and retired at the end of 1991.