This is a Home Work Assignment to all my readers.

Are we a society that seeks a pill for the solution for all our troubles. Which pill is better? One that cures you in 90 days and costs $10,000 or one that controls your condition but requires a daily dose all your life and costs $3.50 per day or over $27,000 during the remaining 25 years of the persons life? We are at war with Big Pharma. They get breaks from the Federal Govt. like no negotiating the price of Medicare part D drugs, the FDA having to collect fees for drug approval from the company that wants the approval and other sordid situations. It is in the interest of the company bottom line to control and not cure problems.

Should we use pills to control a child’s behavior or should we use other modalities and pills occasionally. At what age is a child’s brain ready for the medication without harm?

Should members of panels making recommendations for the care of patients and the use of medications have had any financial dealings with a drug company in the preceeding 5 years or the 5 years after serving on the panel? Should a physician have to decide early in a medical career that they will or won’t have income from the suppliers to the medical community like pharmaceutical companies and medical device companies? They do it for their speciality, why not for business relationships. You opt for a number that indicates to everyone throughout your career that you will work on industry and ethics then removes you from making recommendations on general patient care like the panel that recommends standards of care for prevention and treatment of heart disease and cholesterol.

I have written a blog post on my site on Stumble Upon. (But to save you the time http://drop.io/oneanswer. The password is myanswer. the phone number is -
646 495 9203 ext 30697. Look forward to hearing from you there.) It is in response to an article I read and book marked there. I also set up a drop at drop.io(www.drop.io/oneanswer Password myanswer) for comments. Please, click on the link, go to the post on stumble upon, if you agree with the article and what I have written there, go to the Drop.io site or use the number (646 495 9203 ext 30697) and call in your comments and suggestions.

I want to do something and I want to use what the editors on lifehacker.com call the “Hive Mind”. The collective suggestions and opinion of everyone. We know there is a problem, lets begin to solve it. Lets discuss it and lets bring it to the attention of all our friends and neighbors. Lets think about things like getting all physicians to quit letting drug companies to buy them lunch. To get all physicians to quit seeing drug sales representatives. Lets have an online place so that physicians could get samples sent to their neediest patients but none in the office. I work in medicine and I won’t eat with the drug reps and won’t accept dinner invitations or anything I can’t use to help patients. Mostly I will sign for samples only but I would rather have a voucher and just give it to those who need it most. I want to use your comments to influence the FDA. I need 300-400 people to call the number and leave a comment about this problem.

I want your opinions. Please, read the article on Stumble Upon (Mercola here) and then call the Drop.io number or go to the site and use the password in my blog article on Stumble Upon (or as listed in the paragraphs above) and write a response. I appreciate your time and effort. Let’s DO something besides complain or restate the problem over and over.

I will be checking the Drop.io site daily an reporting results periodically.

Popularity: 2% [?]