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Random Political Thoughts Inc.
Joe Ferguson forever replied to T&C's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
nope, it's like you getting mad with all caucasians after I break into your house. -
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Joe Ferguson forever replied to T&C's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
do you celebrate Hanukkah? if you are meaning to sympathize with the Jews in Australia, it would be more appropriate to explicitly state that. This post could easily be be seen as rubbing salt in the wound. -
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Joe Ferguson forever replied to T&C's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
we are already in great position. I don't know anyone that loathes their caucasian race. Most feel very fortunate but desire fairness, for example with US Somali citizens. Citizens are citizens. Skin color and ancestry shouldn't matter. -
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
