>The first line of defense used to be the MD, but they sold out to big pharma a long time ago.

From today's local paper.

http://www.nj.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2017/06/doctors_raked_in_cash_to_push_powerful_fentanyl_as_nj_death_rate_soared.html


"•From 2013 to 2015, doctors in New Jersey were paid at least $1.67 million by pharmaceutical companies marketing various forms of fentanyl. In the same time period, fentanyl deaths in New Jersey increased from 42 in 2013 to 417 in 2015."

This is a disgrace and everyone knows that it is.
I live in a senior community and some of the people I talk to here are taking as many as 8 drugs daily.
Some costs hundreds of dollars per month.
I kept changing MD's till I found one who promised not to try to force useless and possibly harmful meds and spurious tests on me.