tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184208181444239184.post3435401967091954664..comments2024-03-14T13:25:42.698-04:00Comments on Child in Mind: Insel of NIMH Misses the Mark: Medication as Social ControlClaudia M. Gold, MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13081419560269676730noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184208181444239184.post-2264970917640700472014-06-08T14:47:06.085-04:002014-06-08T14:47:06.085-04:00"Universal screening", whispered into th..."Universal screening", whispered into the ears of news reporters, physicians, scientists, spokespeople, and even lawyers by drug companies, is a major marketing tool, not medicine. <br /><br />"I feel overwhelmed and impotent, that's why I prescribe drugs" is the biggest cop out by physicians.<br /><br />What is a physician's job? To give into pharmaceutical corporation marketing pressure, patient demand due to pharmaceutical corporation marketing misinformation and outright deceit, his or her own desire to see his or alloted number of patients per day and not to fall behind so as not to be fired... <br /><br />...or to self-educate and then inform patients about options, risks, and benefits, and see what happens? <br /><br />The patient is the car; the doctor is the mechanic, and for the mechanic deliberately to throw a wrench into the works of the car not only is bad medicine, and not only is completely unethical, it is abhorrent fraud.<br /><br />C. Carolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00655073439592434808noreply@blogger.com