My random rant about the pharmaceutical industry and the whole medical system in general is that they're not truly accountable. My mom has been suffering for months. She goes to her local doctor and (OK she's a silly scared little old lady that doesn't matter much I guess) he says here try this. Now you or I could easily tolerate a dose of
but mom's system is delicate and she's severely underweight. Even OTC stuff is a disaster. You or I take a dose of milk of magnesia, OK we get a slight case of the trots, and think nothing of it. It takes her two days to recover from that. Well guess what. It didn't work. Does that doctor give a shit about my poor little mom? Ha! Meanwhile...She has to wait and wait for each of these Dr. appointments. They suggest one thing or the other and shoo her out the door. They write a prescription and shoo her out the door. Next. There is absolutely no follow up. Now I know my mom is not always lucid but she deserves a scientific treatment plan, where they keep trying stuff and adjusting her diet/meds until they get a combination she can digest and eliminate without all these effects. She keeps thinking it's something she's doing. She wants to think that, but I'm inclined to believe the system is just malfunctioning. She is a control freak like me. As long as she can convince herself that there must be something she can *DO* to fix it, she is in control.
I digress. That's my mom, what got me thinking about all this. But I wish wish wish wish
that doctors and drug companies had a money back plan. If the doctor fails to help you you only pay half. If the prescription drug fails to help you you get ALL your money back and the doctor who prescribed it would get nicked as well. That would sober them up REAL quick.
Other businesses have such a policy. I mean, if I get a bad haircut from my hairdresser, they'll fix it free within 7 days. If I buy something from a store and it fails to do what it says it will do I can return it.
And another thing... surely it should be doable to make national registry of prescriptions so that a person cant go to six different doctors and get six different scripts for vioxx. We're such a drug based society. How do we expect our kids to stay off recreational drugs when 2 of every 3 adults is on some kind of serious long term prescription meds!!!
