[Marsha] Why yes, when people are getting screwed it's always a "complex issue". Frontline had on a couple weeks ago a program: The Medicated Child.
http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/youth-mental-health/pbs-on-psychiatric-druggin g-youth [Krimel] Of course it's a complex issue if it weren't it would be solved. I watched the Frontline episode and it was very good at pointing out the complexities. On the one hand they point to the dramatic rise in diagnosing childhood mentally illness and raising concerns about it. But most of the families and the older children themselves recognized the value of the treatment they were getting. I did not detect any desire on the part of most of those families to dispense with medications. In fact they all seemed to have tried that and not been happy with the results. [Marsha] But my complaint was about the medical establishment in general. Surgery as a doctor's first line of defense against inflation. And the pharmaceutical establishment is a perfect example a "complex issue". [Krimel] If you are saying that profit should not be a motive in medicine I am sympathetic but I think it is more of a matter of proper direction of profit motive then elimination of it. Now for example doctors may elect to encourage certain procedures purely to avoid malpractice suits. [Marsha] There is no doubt in my mind, it was about the money. I knew, as did the doctors, from the first day he was diagnosed with so many tumors in so many organs, that he was a goner. I won't describe the tortuous side-effects he endured, but they were unnecessary. - I rely on common sense, not drugs or doctors. And I fully accept death as a part of life. You can justify any which way, but I don't trust the medical establishment. I am mightily suspicious of their 'enlightened procedures' when it's the bottom line that counts. [Krimel] In my experience with doctors both personally and with loved ones doctors attempt to explain their diagnosis and treatment plan. They present options and must get a patient or caregivers approval before undertaking a treatment plan. As a patient I regard it as my responsibility to understand the diagnosis and the treatment before agreeing to proceed. I have a friend whose leukemia was cured but chemo-therapy and he insists years later that if it returns he would rather die than repeat the treatment. All I am saying is that whether profits motivate doctors are not that is not what ultimately dictates treatment. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
