GotSmart said:
[font=Verdana, Arial, sans-serif](83% of all traditional docs in N. America are financially compensated by pharmaceutical companies for prescribing their drugs.) [/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]I hate to argue this point with someone so well informed with the medical INDUSTRY, but this link tells a different story.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]http://groups.law.gwu.edu/lr/articlepdf/79-1-weiss.pdf
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[font=Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]5 On average, the drug and medical device industries spend over $20,000 per doctor each year on marketing efforts that include gifts, meals, travel, consultancy fees, and continuing medical education programs.6 The reach of medical marketing has grown so broad that one recent survey reported that ninety-four percent of physicians have received some form of benefit or payment from the drug and device industries.
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[font=Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]With so much information/misinformation out there it is hard to wade through what is hyperbole and what is reality.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]Keep up the good fight, and remember that 92% of statistics are made up on the spot. (or is it higher?) 
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Mornin'!
I can't comment on sources with which I'm unfamiliar, so let's go with the
American Medical Association's own quote (from 2013).
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The Journal of the American Medical Association reports
over 87% of the medical "experts" who make the rules for the practice of medicine (called practice guidelines)
are financially linked to the pharmaceutical industry (Choudhry). <---- source.
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Less than 11% of recommendations made by cardiologists are based on scientific evidence (Winslow).
The rest of the practice of medicine, dealing with the top cause of death (serious heart disease), 89% is wrapped around a pharmaceutical focus." (Source: Winslow R. Study questions evidence behind heart therapies.
Wall Street Journal, DI, Feb. 25th, 2009.)
Wow! 89% of the the decisions that physicians make regarding
your health are 'wrapped around a pharmaceutical focus.' which means that
they never were looking for a cure, but rather a drug (or several drugs) to give you.
Neither doctors nor pharmaceutical companies 'get rich' (to the tune of billions per year) if you are
cured. They want you as a
patient, dependent on drugs for the rest of your life, which never fail to make you sicker, quicker!
Tell me, who was the last person you met who had a
Tylenol (NSAID) or
Metoprolol (beta blocker), or
Lipitor (statin) deficiency? You won't find one! What you
will find is that most of the population is deficient in critically important minerals, essential fatty acids, vitamins, and micronutrients etc., any or all of which deficiencies can (and sooner or later will) cause high blood pressure, fatal heart attacks, strokes, arrhythmias, cancers, diabetes, and a host of other maladies which can (and usually do) kill you. The good news is that ALL OF THEM ARE CURABLE - EVERY ONE!
For example, if you go to the ER with A-fib (a potentially lethal cardiac arrhythmia), they'll restore you to a NSR (normal sinus rythm), if they can, with either Metoprolol (or a similar first-line drug), or they'll cardiovert (electrocute) you with defibrillators and then put you on Metoprolol
(highly toxic, addictive, and it will increase your risk of sudden death two-and-a-half times)for life.
If you come to
me (or any other competent medical professional who specializes in Environmental Medicine) with A-fib, I'm going to cardiovert you with a
non-toxic cocktail consisting of elemental magnesium, potassium, and arginine, and give you a tablespoonful of Cod Liver Oil every fifteen minutes, and have you sip on a glass of warm water with a teaspoonful of cayenne in it. THEN, when you're stable, I'm going to have a Cardio-ION panel done to find out the CAUSE of your A-fib, and CURE it - or rather
you'll CURE it; I'll merely show you how.
Once you understand what's 'broken,' it's easy enough to 'fix' it, and you won't be tied to a totally unnecessary, toxic drug regimen for the rest of your life.
As for stats on this and that in medicine, they change with time, as does everything else, so stats from a 2010 report will differ from a 2014 report, and so on.
Hope this helps,
Jesse.
