Aella_
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snugglestruggle;73142656… ..[/QUOTE said:I agree with you and parody re the risks of medications and the dishonesty of drug companies who are trying to minimise them. On the other hand, those are serious illnesses that need to be treated, and they haven't come up yet with better alternatives.
But I also blame the medical system or model (and administrative bodies) here. Particularly in the US. Because, given the risks, those people who are started or stopped on these meds. need to be monitored very closely. Which doesn't happen a lot in the States. Adding perhaps to the overmedications that uou mentioned, too.
Many of my friends or acquaintances who live in the US keep telling me about some of the shortcomings of the medical system there.
That in order to save money, the private medical employers halve the staff that's needed. So when my friends or others go for a check-up or follow-up, they feel that they get less of the necessary attention because of time constraints. And so on.
This doesn't happen in Au, NZ. The medical system is mostly "state owned" (a more socialist structure, so to speak) so personal profit comes less into play. Better staffed, less emphasis on "the professional has to see as many patients as (s)he can in a day". So patients have the luxury of being well looked after and seen as often as they need to be seen.