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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mike Sixx" data-source="post: 2159914" data-attributes="member: 516250">Please do not start that anti-vaxxer conspiracy theory. Doctors, and specially nurses are not getting any "kickbacks" specially not in NHS, or any other national health services. For doctors salary the kickbacks money would be trivial (except for USA drug prices) compared to risk of losing their license and going to jail. There might be a problem of doctors too eagerly pushing for drugs, but outside USA it is not kickbacks. How would that even work ? In civilized world there is no way of companies knowing which doctor prescribed what. There are no more prescription pads doctors could photocopy and send to companies for payment. Doctors push out too many pills because it is easy, I mean if you indiscriminately prescribe antibiotics to every patient chances are for maybe like 30% they do nothing and they heal up by themselves, for another 38% they actually help a little but not really needed, maybe 30% those were absolutely needed and maybe 2% they cause acute problems. Still it is numbers game 98% of those patients were "healed" from the acute problem they had. Not counting damages this indiscriminate antibiotics use will cause to them and all others; killing off good bacteria and developing antibiotics resistant strains. Also the risk. General guideline says: prescribe Metformin for diabetes diagnosis. If that turns out bad they followed the guideline. If they try to do better and it fails, they might get sued for malpractice. All drugs are poisons. But at right dosage and right drug mostly kill or damages what it is meant to. Problem is none of them are very accurate and human bodies are so different. But in many cases drug side effects are the much lesser evil. So choose you poison; Metformin or Sugar. Best option would ofc be neither, but when that is not possible for most Metformin is much lesser evil.Drugs are not always bad, mmmkay. P.S. I am also planning of ditching drugs, IF I can. But only when I can.</blockquote>

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