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Medical Doctors may be Hazardous to your Health
http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2011/05/25/two-new-studies-warn-medical-doctors-may-be-hazardous-to-your-health/
Today’s doctors-in-training are learning how to think critically and clearly about the need for — and potential dangers of — any drugs they prescribe. And surgeons only operate if they are physically and mentally able to make sure they will not be putting their patient in any danger, right? Unfortunately, two new papers show that those assumptions are wrong. In fact, they reveal critical reasons why mainstream medicine can be a danger to your health and even threaten your life.
Bottom line: med students are being taught through a hidden curriculum devised and carried out by Big Pharma (and allowed by medical schools) to push the prescribing of their drugs. Meanwhile, countless surgeons are operating and sometimes harming patients because they are impaired by fatigue and lack of sleep.
Here are the facts. Medical students in the United States are being bombarded with the pro-drug propaganda of pharmaceutical companies– and the students are exposed to this throughout their education, even in the years before they have clinical experience treating patients. According to research led by Kirsten Austad and Aaron S. Kesselheim from Harvard Medical School just published inPLoS Medicine, it turns out the drug giants have created what the Harvard researchers have dubbed a highly influentialhidden curriculum
that pushes doctors-in-training into accepting and promoting Big Pharma’s prescription drugs and other therapies.
The enormous and ongoing contact with drug companies is associated with medical professionals developing positive attitudes about the marketing of prescription medications. Moreover, the med students are not developing any healthy skepticism about potential negative implications of the drug pushing techniques — or the drugs themselves.
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