“Patient Confusion and Medical Conflicts Grow”
For years, I have written of how patients are bombarded with confusing medical articles and that we have arrived at a point where common sense has collided with so-called medical science. As a patient advocate, I carefully follow the medical literature addressing the harmful potential of pharmaceutical drugs and supplements. There are so many drug related complications coming out on a daily basis, that it is difficult to keep up and full disclosure by the drug companies is still a far away goal and manipulation of their drug data, to increase sales, is commonplace. The unacceptable number of deaths (over 106,000 annually) from drug adverse effects must be addressed. We are in an age in which snake oil flows faster than Texas crude. The entire dietary supplement industry is out of control, with over 55,000 being peddled, and our citizens are paying premium prices for ineffective and potentially harmful chemical concoctions tagged as “medical breakthrough” and “magic pills.”
