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**Hmwmzian** · 05-08-2012, 04:46 AM

Yes Big Pharma spend allot of money on Research & Development when making new drugs, but obviously after spending all this money they need to generate profits...what would be the use of having drugs that no one needs or uses. The video in the OP says they need people to take the drugs all the time. The drugs usually have many bad side effects and they suppress the symptoms they do not cure the disease...usually the disease is caused by diet and lifestyle. If the food producers gave us healthy natural nutritious foods we would have fewer diseases and if the work life was less stressful, less fast there would be greater health. Modern life pushes people into stressful work, mortgage payments, debts, taxes, traffic jams...long work hours all contribute to illness. No doctor will mention any of these things because they would upset many people. The NHS is not very good considering the money that it uses...small scale hospitals where patients get good care are more likely to contribute to the recovery of the patient than a Big Hospital with no gardens and just traffic noise and massive wards. Recovery needs good quiet wards, good food, access to the sounds of nature, birds, wind and water holistically.

The NHS mostly uses and encourages doctors to prescribe generic drugs, and big companies have to go and fight court cases to try and get the NHS to use their drugs (see recent UK news coverage about Novartis and an eye drug).

Big pharma companies are FOR PROFIT organisation not charities. It takes them literally hundreds of millions of pounds to discover and bring a drug to market, brother a lot of the times this is maybe half a billion pounds for one single drug to be available in the market, and like I said these companies are not charities.

As it stands, doctors are very reluctant to prescribe branded meds. They are constrained in their own budgets. Very soon the patent of Lipitor will expire, watch how all the doctors switch their simvastatin patients to generic Lipitor (atorvastatin). so where would you say their devotion to their church will go then?

It is easy for people who don't know to buy the hype but a lot of the time it causes only hurt to the very same people or worse their children.

Salam

Saqqib

05-08-2012, 04:46 AM	#7
Hmwmzian Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 495 Senior Member	Yes Big Pharma spend allot of money on Research & Development when making new drugs, but obviously after spending all this money they need to generate profits...what would be the use of having drugs that no one needs or uses. The video in the OP says they need people to take the drugs all the time. The drugs usually have many bad side effects and they suppress the symptoms they do not cure the disease...usually the disease is caused by diet and lifestyle. If the food producers gave us healthy natural nutritious foods we would have fewer diseases and if the work life was less stressful, less fast there would be greater health. Modern life pushes people into stressful work, mortgage payments, debts, taxes, traffic jams...long work hours all contribute to illness. No doctor will mention any of these things because they would upset many people. The NHS is not very good considering the money that it uses...small scale hospitals where patients get good care are more likely to contribute to the recovery of the patient than a Big Hospital with no gardens and just traffic noise and massive wards. Recovery needs good quiet wards, good food, access to the sounds of nature, birds, wind and water holistically. The NHS mostly uses and encourages doctors to prescribe generic drugs, and big companies have to go and fight court cases to try and get the NHS to use their drugs (see recent UK news coverage about Novartis and an eye drug). Big pharma companies are FOR PROFIT organisation not charities. It takes them literally hundreds of millions of pounds to discover and bring a drug to market, brother a lot of the times this is maybe half a billion pounds for one single drug to be available in the market, and like I said these companies are not charities. As it stands, doctors are very reluctant to prescribe branded meds. They are constrained in their own budgets. Very soon the patent of Lipitor will expire, watch how all the doctors switch their simvastatin patients to generic Lipitor (atorvastatin). so where would you say their devotion to their church will go then? It is easy for people who don't know to buy the hype but a lot of the time it causes only hurt to the very same people or worse their children. Salam Saqqib
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