May 4 2012: OH REALLY!!!!!!!!!!!! I was two clicks away from this info. surely youre not saying what I think youre trying to say? hmmmmmm? (Dr Evil voice)
"Whistleblower Dr. David Graham, in testimony before the US Senate, estimated 88,000 to 139,000 Americans experienced heart attacks as a side effect from the drug, and 30 to 40 percent of these died. That would be an estimated 27,000 to 55,000 preventable deaths attributed to Vioxx.
Nobody is saying it, but it looks like Vioxx did kill many thousands of Americans."
"Table Of Iatrogenic Deaths In The United States
(Deaths induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures)
These projected figures show that a total of 164 million people, approximately 56 percent of the population of the United States, have been treated unnecessarily by the medical industry—in other words, nearly 50,000 people per day."
I think that might change your life expectancy numbers a bit :)
I didnt mention anything about the third world but since you bring it up. Lets see where diarrhea is a main killer. Oh yeah where Bill Gates is spending money on meds when all they need is cleaner environment, farming, clean food and water, infrastructure.
"Yes, pharmaceutical companies make millions" Youre wrong they make billions. Nobody without insurance can afford their "poison" anyway. Remember people were going to Canada to get the same drugs for less money. Oh the govt and the pharma put a quick end to that.
Now the answer to your answer to the question I never asked. If people lived a healthier lifestyle they wouldn't need the drugs.
I wasnt talking about life threatening situations but since you painted every drug as a life and death situation and everybody on meds really needs them to stay alive. Well thats your own biased opinion. I hope your loved one is not misdiagnosed or over drugged to death.
May 4 2012: First of all it should be illegal for drug companies to run tv commercials. Smoking ads were banned so should these awful drug commercials. The problem is drug companys charge thousands percent profit on their poison then use that cash to buy politicians who pass laws allowing them to run the ads. Corporations run the show and politicians sell us out. Cycle of greed. Makes me sick. What makes it even worse is that there are natural remedies for these ailments.
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"Whistleblower Dr. David Graham, in testimony before the US Senate, estimated 88,000 to 139,000 Americans experienced heart attacks as a side effect from the drug, and 30 to 40 percent of these died. That would be an estimated 27,000 to 55,000 preventable deaths attributed to Vioxx.
Nobody is saying it, but it looks like Vioxx did kill many thousands of Americans."
"Table Of Iatrogenic Deaths In The United States
(Deaths induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures)
These projected figures show that a total of 164 million people, approximately 56 percent of the population of the United States, have been treated unnecessarily by the medical industry—in other words, nearly 50,000 people per day."
I think that might change your life expectancy numbers a bit :)
I didnt mention anything about the third world but since you bring it up. Lets see where diarrhea is a main killer. Oh yeah where Bill Gates is spending money on meds when all they need is cleaner environment, farming, clean food and water, infrastructure.
"Yes, pharmaceutical companies make millions" Youre wrong they make billions. Nobody without insurance can afford their "poison" anyway. Remember people were going to Canada to get the same drugs for less money. Oh the govt and the pharma put a quick end to that.
Now the answer to your answer to the question I never asked. If people lived a healthier lifestyle they wouldn't need the drugs.
I wasnt talking about life threatening situations but since you painted every drug as a life and death situation and everybody on meds really needs them to stay alive. Well thats your own biased opinion. I hope your loved one is not misdiagnosed or over drugged to death.
My conclusion: Do you work for pfizer, merck?
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