Big Shot State-licensed incompetent MD's
I was recently prescribed Zegerid for acid-reflux. It annoyed me to no end that the MD prescribed a medication that was not on my insurance company's preferred list necessitating an expenditure 2-3 times greater. Serendipity would come to the rescue because that caused me to look it up and I found that A.) Nexium was better and B.) Nexium was cheaper and C.) the reason Zegerid was so much money was that some marketing genius at the company had said, "hey, why not combine some sodium bicarb with omezapoleto and charge an arm and a leg for it." They did it and the idiotic MD's fell for it. I still would like to see a major expose by the New York Times on why MD's fall for the spiel from the drug reps. Somewhere, somehow, a person who goes through that many years of training just doesn't give up common sense and start prescribing stuff just because someone with a vested interest comes knocking.
But all this would be water under the bridge if I could just approach my MD and ask him why he prescribes the way he does. I can't do this because I've discovered that MD's are the most vindictive sons of bitches that God ever created. I know it first hand because I, stupidly, made comment to a Urologist about how I understood that no Urologist would tell his patients about taking calcium when eating spinach or drinking beer (both sources of oxalate) and, in so doing, avoid one type of kidney stone; I had called this situation, their cash cow. Shortly thereafter I would undergo lithotripsy for a stone and end up with a badly bruised flank and pure blood coming out of my urinary tract. I know it was vindictive because I had undergone the procedure with bigger stones with no adverse effects whatsoever. The bastard didn't even come by to ask how I felt. The Stone Center in Newark was complicit in this and some day they'll pay with a litigious patient.
So, I fear that if I start telling this schmuck that he was wrong in prescribing this garbage Zegerid, I might not get the right medical treatment in the future (I'm due for a colonoscopy soon by the same guy).
It's a bad thing that outright murder has to be committed before an MD will lose his license from the state.
The State is a bunch of perhaps well-intentioned but definitely incompetent men; but why should they care? Do they not get the best that's available at no cost? Let's hope President Obama gives us the promised land in health care. But he should remember that cost containment is one thing and incompetence and greed something else that should be addressed.
This power struggle is why I wrote my other blog on "new directions for Obama."
In it, I recommend a paradigm shift whereby the first guy to look at you is only a diagnostician and doesn't prescribe anything, and the other guy is either a surgeon, MD, pharmacist, or other state-licensed prescriber. Eventually even the diagnostician will be replaced by a "Dr House" computer. This will be unavoidable because an analysis of your DNA will, along with an analysis of your environment, tell you 99% of what ails you (the other 1% being hypochondriacs who just like spending money at the doctor's).
But all this would be water under the bridge if I could just approach my MD and ask him why he prescribes the way he does. I can't do this because I've discovered that MD's are the most vindictive sons of bitches that God ever created. I know it first hand because I, stupidly, made comment to a Urologist about how I understood that no Urologist would tell his patients about taking calcium when eating spinach or drinking beer (both sources of oxalate) and, in so doing, avoid one type of kidney stone; I had called this situation, their cash cow. Shortly thereafter I would undergo lithotripsy for a stone and end up with a badly bruised flank and pure blood coming out of my urinary tract. I know it was vindictive because I had undergone the procedure with bigger stones with no adverse effects whatsoever. The bastard didn't even come by to ask how I felt. The Stone Center in Newark was complicit in this and some day they'll pay with a litigious patient.
So, I fear that if I start telling this schmuck that he was wrong in prescribing this garbage Zegerid, I might not get the right medical treatment in the future (I'm due for a colonoscopy soon by the same guy).
It's a bad thing that outright murder has to be committed before an MD will lose his license from the state.
The State is a bunch of perhaps well-intentioned but definitely incompetent men; but why should they care? Do they not get the best that's available at no cost? Let's hope President Obama gives us the promised land in health care. But he should remember that cost containment is one thing and incompetence and greed something else that should be addressed.
This power struggle is why I wrote my other blog on "new directions for Obama."
In it, I recommend a paradigm shift whereby the first guy to look at you is only a diagnostician and doesn't prescribe anything, and the other guy is either a surgeon, MD, pharmacist, or other state-licensed prescriber. Eventually even the diagnostician will be replaced by a "Dr House" computer. This will be unavoidable because an analysis of your DNA will, along with an analysis of your environment, tell you 99% of what ails you (the other 1% being hypochondriacs who just like spending money at the doctor's).
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