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Re: Psychiatry Pushes Drugs, Kills Boy
« on: April 26, 2009, 02:49:33 pm »
As far as I'm concerned it's the individual's responsibility to check the credentials of the doctor they are visiting and to research the treatment methods they recommend or provide for.

I feel the same way towards idiots that visit MDs without checking their credentials and then feel cheated later on when the doctor misdiagnoses them due to lack of experience.

"Trust me I'm a doctor" right?

Usually the credentials are fine, that's not always the problem.  You act as if these parents have some kind of formal medical training, you go to a doctor because they are suppose to know what they are talking about, and most of the time they do, it's just some get corrupted by the pay-offs they are getting from the pharmaceutical companies, so they get caught up more in pushing drugs rather than actual treatment. 

Plus when it comes to psychiatric drugs, which don't actually do that much (mood elevators) they are just a temporary fix you need to be on long term or don't work at all (anti-depression drugs causing suicidal tendencies).

I agree the parents are at some fault but they are probably just worried for their child and as they aren't doctors will take the word of one who they believe has the best intentions at heart.

If it was up to me I would trust to word of someone talking to me face to face who had a PhD, who I could ask questions rather than a web article I've read online. But the more and more I hear about the corruption of the health care system from stories like this I fear that trust between the doctor and patient will wear thin because of these pharmaceutical companies, who don't seem to ever want to fix the problem, just permanently treat it, because there is no money to be had for a cure.

Lol, well this is probably the difference between me and normal people, I am inherently skeptical of just about everything. And I rarely trust anyone, that includes people who are "supposedly" more educated than me.

I have an inherent distrust of authority to begin with, and I think it would be wiser for others to do the same.