Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão wrote: >Only irresponsible medical doctors can give you a guarantee or full assurance >that any medicine or chemical will not produce any side effects or harmful > effects on ingestion. This basic advise is taught as students because human > being is not a machine where you can give a guarantee. > > Mervyn would do better to know that medical doctors are bound by > Hippocratic Oath. I would suggest he reads and understands the Oath here:
Ok, Doc, I am going to give this one last try by trying a different approach. I invest in the future i.e. in companies that are looking for medical break thru's. Here in the west, there is the opportunity to pay pennies, buying the shares of companies that are looking for a medical break thru and if they are successful, and the FDA approves the new drug, selling the same shares for an equivalent number of dollars. Yes, you pay 21 cents for shares and sell the same for 21 dollars. IF THE DRUG IS APPROVED As you can imagine, the FDA has stringent rules. It requests all the data recorded during the research of the drug, examines the data AND then conducts its own extensive tests. More often than not, the FDA rejects the new medicine, The most frequent reason given is that the placebo used often gives better results than the new drug. The mind, being a powerful weapon, can cure some people when they believe that they are taking the 'right' medicine. The second most used reason to reject a new drug is that the new drug will often have severe side effects on a small percentage of the users. The FDA does not take the side effects of any drug lightly. If a new drug is approved, the company that created the new drug gets a seven year patent and makes BILLIONS of dollars. If at anytime the public complains to the FDA that the drug has (unintended) side effects, the FDA investigates these claims and/or the company does, as the western society that I live in is very litigation sensitive. In short, a drug with side effects will quickly be pulled off the market. This is done by the manufacturing company for either humanitarian concerns or, if you are a sceptic, for commercial reasons. Rest assured that in the western litigious society, any drug that remains manufactured and marketed meets and passes all mandated quality tests. If you have a different opinion, hey, feel free to go around spreading your views! Mervyn1340Lobo
