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Don’t Automatically Trust Your Doctor
“It Might Kill You”
The Headline reads: HARVARD INVESTIGATION SHOWS DOCTORS ARE PAID
HUGE SUMS TO PRESCRIBE ADDICTIVE OPIOIDS. “In 2010, it was found that
roughly 100,000 Americans die each year from prescription drugs alone. Now, according
to a recent Harvard University analysis, doctors who prescribe these pain-killers are being
paid huge sums of money from their manufacturers. The research, which was conducted
by Harvard scientists and CNN, discovered that in 2014-2015 thousands of doctors were
paid over $25,000 from opioid manufacturers and hundreds more were rewarded with
six-figure sums. Also, the more opioids that were prescribed, the larger the reward.”
Now President Trump is calling for tougher sentencing of drug dealers. The headline there
reads: Trump opioid plan includes death penalty for traffickers. Is that going to apply to
these kinds of doctors who are accepting bribes, payoffs, to effect ruin and death into an
alarming number of Americans lives?
It is hard to believe how deep this rabbit hole goes in the wonderful world of modern
medicine. Just read what a former and a current editor-in-chief of the two largest most
credible medical journals in the world, listen to what they have to say:
“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is
published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical
guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and
reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of the New England Journal of
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