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Authored by: squib on Saturday, December 08 2012 @ 11:15 AM EST
I agree. There exists a three horned dilemma with contradictions. Because of NICE my specialist will not recommend one particular drug, yet my General Practitioner will happily prescribe it because he knows that that many of his patents find it helpful and its safe on a risk/benefit scale. In other words, he is not prescribing it to cure me but to ameliorate some of the symptoms.

And in reply to coats post above: In Germany, doctors can prescribe 'white willow bark' that seems better tolerated than pharmaceutical aspirin. For some ulcers, honeyhas been found better than antibiotics. There are many more examples. The so called health industries now seems more intent on profit than their declared mission. So much so that they try to side line any threat to their market share in defiance of their publicly declared raison d'ĂȘtre.

I say give them a dose of the own medicine. The next time they want you to have a 'little' look at their computer, recommend a hardrivesctomy... etc.

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