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I don't think he was talking about colleges; there's (much) bigger education than that in this country.
ing WC is an expert on everything. the doctor, WC found some online.
I don't think he was talking about colleges; there's (much) bigger education than that in this country.
http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top...08&indexType=i
no 1 industry in lobbying for 2008: Pharmaceuticals/Health Products$236,022,031
no. 3 : Insurance$153,694,224
Fine then. You know that the swine flue is a political manufactured scare, that it is far less death rate than the annual flue season. Maybe I'm a ditz, but I just fail to understand how you are willing to take a chance on the more problematic side effects if your wife would be one of the unfortunate ones to get one of those serious ones I brought up.
Now I agree. I'm no medical expert. Didn't you say your wife has some kind of a chronic eye infection? Seems like that would radically increase the chances of either
Stevens–Johnson syndrome or Toxic epidermal necrolysis to me. Has anyone in research history taken this drug that has your wife's condition? Maybe not either of the two, but something related, to do with the Sclera.
Bottom line for me is that I do not take manufactured drugs other than aspirin without a real good compelling reason. I don't even recall the last time I did. It was probably over 30 years ago excluding mandatory vaccinations when I was in the Army. I don't believe in tampering with my immune system.
I guess you and your wife have bought into a "better life through drugs."
WC has a point when it comes to the abuse of prescription medicine and otherwise healthty people should not get into the habit of popping an advil everytime someone gets a headache. but the intented application of medicine is twofold: preventative or treatment of an illness or set of symptoms.
the general thinking should be to use medicine only when necessary but there are many physicians who abuse prescriptions.
when it comes to the flu, vaccines can cause subluxations in the spine and thus effect the nervous system and, as a result, your immune system. but the CDC will often weigh the risks of an epidemic versus the risks of side effects (as is the case with medicine in general). when it came to the H1N1 virus the concern was the genetic make up of that strain of the flu. if this had been a virus similar to the H5N1 virus then we would have been facing a much more pathogenic strain. it has a reported mortality rate near 50% and if such a strain were to make it to the general population we would probably be best served in attempting to administer drugs such as oseltamivir as quickly as possible since the accounting would suggest risk is greater in failing to treat the virus with drugs.
of course, we put ourselves at risk in letting so much of the agricultural industry in the world go unchecked and unregulated (including the US).
by the way, the swine flu will be watched closely this flu season as it caught us towards the summer and as a result never really peaked (though it did spread through countries entering winter such as argentina) . a vaccination will probably be available this october.
Yes, self-medication is a terrible thing. Couldn't agree more.
I'm fortunate enough that:
a) My wife is a Registered Nurse and works in a Hospital.
b) I work with doctors.
Which gives us pretty much unlimited access to them whenever we have a question/problem. We also never took or will take any kind of medicine unless diagnosed with an illness and indicated to do so by a professional. We like to ask second opinions too whenever something doesn't quite jive.
Unfortunately, not everyone is as lucky, and with all the armchair MDs getting their education from the internets instead of medical school, the problem is even worse.
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