>Jim;
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>The medical “profession” takes a level of “acceptable risk” when it approves anything. Some “magic number” is used to define a risk for a population group. It may depend upon age, sex, ailment and who did the study. Some individuals do not fit the “model” and fall outside the Bell Curve on the side of “sensitive” to a specific risk.
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>When Ford was President, he was on nation wide television to tell everyone to “get a flu shot”! More people died from that flu shot then died from the flu that year.
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>In 1960 the San Francisco Chronicle headline announced, “Cancer Cured”! Also announced that “All whole blood is tested for AIDS, as of 1985”! People still get AIDS from whole blood. People get AIDS and other diseases from inoculations due to needle reuse in hospitals, medical clinics and doctors offices.
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>Doctors and pharmaceutical houses are in business for one reason. Profit! Competency means little to these individuals and I am speaking from personal experience. Your life is nothing more than a number to these fine folks who treat you as nothing more than a open cash source.
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>Tom

Both my son and I were given Hepatitus B by a doctor reusing his needles. My son nearly died of it and had high antigen E levels for over 20 years, increasing his risk of liver cancer significanly. He was forced to give up his license. That last I heard he was selling medical equipment and drugs.

I've consulted for several doctors and 'groups' of doctors over the years. In the early 80s an anesthesiolist group the four doctors averaged 30 hours a week each for 8 months of the year, with four months vacation. They typically charge about $500/hour for even the most trivial of services. It is worse now.

To maximize their income MDs employ PAs, whom they pay a fraction of what the patient is charged for the PAs 'services'. I would rather that the government break the AMAs monopoly over medicine and allow more MDs to graduate. This way, the rampant greed can be curtailed, and more places can access to physicians, especially the rural ones. It makes one wonder that if a nurse has sufficient skill to replace an MD in most situations, what justifies the big bucks and restricted med school enrollments?