<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> A few days ago I posted the following: >> ...For the 100th time, I wondered >> why it is not the responsibility of the doctor or his/her nurse or someone >> in his/her office to call the manufacturer and find out whether or not a >> medication is safe for a patient... >> >> There is a wonderfully strong and scary term, IATROGENIC illness. It means >> an illness caused - CAUSED - by medical treatment. It is a scandal that so >> many people in the USA are victims of iatrogenic illness and even death >> brought on by iatrogenic causes... There have only been a few - heart felt - responses, so here they are: **** > I am on the same soapbox as you. >I have been there and I know. I have this trouble all the time. I have >had 9 surgeries and not one of these doctors have ever checked my >medication. I cannot take morphine or codeine either. I am not allergic >to it, just doesn't agree with my system.What do you think they sent me >home with? A precription for a derivitive of morphine. I was deathly >sick and had withdrawal symtems when it wore off. > Recently, I asked my internist for a med for anxiety because I had >a lot of stress taking a lot of medical tests and waiting for results. >He gave me one presciption after another. I checked them out myself, not >the pharm. not the MD. It had corn and lactose in it,,,,,,I didn't take >it. I am totally disgusted with the medical profession and their >disregard for us. > Off the soap box. > Rosalie NJ **** >You are absolutely dead right on target, which is why I gave up on >"western" medicine and now I go exclusively to Holistic physicans and >Natureopaths and Hoemeopathists. I didn't get well until I sought out >alternative medicine. Western doctors are arrogant and and for the most >part totally ignorant, with their greatest shortcomings being not >listening to their patients. Most are still suffering from a "god" >complex. However, the western medical profession is finally realizing, >or at least some of them are, that people are going in droves to >alternative medical practioners. Hiting them in the wallet sends a >strong message. My soapbox is my great dislike of the AMA, but that's a >whole other story. > >Candice in California **** >I'm up on your soapbox with you....didn't I read somewhere that more >people die from LEGAL prescribed medications in hospitals than from >"unapproved by the FDA" stuff? > >Anne Washburn **** >You are always posting on topics that I need assistance with. I have been >trying for one week now to find a prednisone preparation that is gf for a >sinus infection. The pharmacy where I usually do business doesn't carry one >and other pharmacies take so long to call drug companies and it is difficult >to be patient when you don't feel good. I searched the archives because I >thought I remembered posts that might be helpful, but I was unable to locate >them. Any ideas? > >Karen in Ky. **** >Actually, I think that medical schools need to incorporate some kind of >'anti-arrogance' training. Some of the doctor horror stories we hear are >a direct result of some doctors who refuse to believe that anyone else >has any medical knowledge - only THEY know ANYTHING... > >Now I'll get off my box too.. >Grandpa Jim If any of you want to contact these people, I will save their messages, with their addresses, for a few more days, and you can contact me. Gayle K