Joe Ferguson forever

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

the illegal prescribing has almost disappeared for reasons teef and I have explained. It won''t recur unless some politician decides the monitoring programs are an invasion of privacy. That would do much more harm than boats leaving Venezuela on the open seas. I'm glad your experience with medical professionals has been good. Almost all of us are big believers in science. It's not always fast or even correct but it's the best method we've devised in the history of the world.

yup. it was a travesty. and they were successfully prosecuted. many bad docs went to jail. There are definitely things I don't like about pharma. price gouging and finding ways around patent expirations are 2 of the big ones (both could be largely solved by single payer and a national formulary. but without big pharma, the bugs would have won the antibiotic wars years ago and many cancers would still have a life expectancy of less than a year. many more conditions where their research investments have paid huge dividends to humanity.

I was a speaker for drug companies for products I believed in. The last few were NOAC's (novel oral anticoagulants). Pradaxa was first and was relatively slow to be used despite its obvious advantages over coumadin. I'm happy to have promoted a superior drug to the then standard of care. NOACs are now the standard of care. I never spoke or went to a program for a scheduled drug. If I was doing pain management, I'd have no problem going as long as a robust discussion was allowed. It almost always is. These programs can be very useful but there are those that aren't. These dinners are the limit that doctors can accept from pharma and that's as it should be. and you clearly don't.

this is just hilarious. As a nation, we are already completely divided on political ideology. I think it's time to geographically divide. your side can have all the measels cases and all the future vaccine preventable disease. Our side can prosper further...

guess which group you align with https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/lack-high-school-education-predicts-vaccine-hesitancy

thanks for being the control group.

Yes, both. traveling internationally several times. would be stupid not to. Are you swearing off all products made by big pharmaceutical? that would be cool.

What does that have to do with 2.5 million lives saved. Please, never take any big pharma products when you get sick. Die for your principles. They don't believe in evolution either and they really are examples against it. but they only hang out with similarly regressing humans. The earth is only 10,000 years old and was created in 6 days, don't you know.

they're irredeemable. Natural selection in real time.

2.5 million people saved from death not enough? what number would motivate you?

2.5 million is the number that matters most, by far. And this is considered a conservative estimate. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2836434#google_vignette

will there be a millenniall civil war (class war)? https://www.cerulli.com/press-releases/cerulli-anticipates-124-trillion-in-wealth-will-transfer-through-2048#:~:text=Some%20other%20findings%20from%20the%20report%20include:,down%20to%20Gen%20X%20or%20Millennial%20heirs

Stefanik was just on CNN discussing a bipartisan plan that would temporarily continue subsidies while targeting fraud and abuse. speaker Johnson is holding up a vote and she's frustrated. Is she truly on the correct side of an issue? Seems like it. As an aside, I've been seeing ads promoting pbm's (pharmacy benefit managers) recently. This bill targets them.

poso was recently threatening a real reporter to not release an embarrassing story on a dept of defense official. you feel he's a legitimate source for anything? he's a political operative, not a journalist. davis is clearly a trump mouthpiece. has been for years. while interpretation of the law is somewhat subjective, eyebrows should be raised when the interpretations always favor one individual. maybe find a more objective source.