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Originally Posted by Sly
If you have a serious illness you likely have multiple specialists that you see on a semi-regular basis. There is no way that they could possibly know what you are doing with the other specialists, especially if each specialist is through a different hospital or network.
Over the last few weeks I have seen a general, dentist, an ophthalmologist, pulmonologist, dermatologist, and ENT. Every single one of them asked me what I was taking and if I started taking anything new. There is no way the ENT would have known what I was doing with the pulmonologist, ophthalmologist, or dentist as they are on completely different hospital networks.
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There have been a fuckload of changes with Obamacare. I took my mom to the Doctor a couple days ago and she (the Doctor) had to enter in all the data into a Gov't website with codes for everything. Maybe this is a Medicaid/Medicare thing but one day ALL data will be combined. Will work great when we are all chipped like animals.
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Originally Posted by PornWorx
I was trained as a paramedic, we were taught lifestyle changes over medications to treat health conditions in our personal lives and to promote lifestyle changes to patients because the physicians were most likely not doing it. We were also trained that if we had to contact someone regarding a patients medication that they are on, that we should choose their pharmacist over their family physician. The pharmacists spend majority of their university studies specifically on medications whereas physicians spend a fraction of their time studying them. Almost any pharmacist I have spoke to seems to advocate lifestyle changes as well as question why someone would need that specific medication if they thought it was unnessacary. My family physician however seems like he would sign a prescription for absolutely anything I want without even running a single test such as blood work etc...to see if I even need it.
Moderate exercise. Eat well. Manage stress. It's very simple and I wish physicians advocated for that more often although it does seem changes are being made which is good.
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Doctors get special treatment from Big Pharma and are given all kinds of incentives to push their drugs. But what you say is absolutely true that pharmacists know a fuck lot more about the drugs they are fulfilling than the doctors do who are prescribing them.
But hey, I guess if you were into oxycotin or xanax or whatever and were a good bullshitter you could doctor shop all day long. Would anyone care? More drugs = more profits for everyone so have at it. Talk about sick.