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AtomSmasher:
--- Quote from: shorthair on June 21, 2007, 08:08:15 pm ---No, I meant health care and pharmaceuticals, as they're not about keeping people healthy - let alone making sure they don't eventually need such things, ever - but making sure they need something to fix what could otherwise be addressed, or even avoided, with a balanced lifestyle. And everyone involved in either or both of those 'fields' is an accomplice, whether unwittingly.
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I saw that Seinfeld episode. The one where George needs his tonsils out, but decided to go to a holistic healer instead. Funny stuff.
CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: shorthair on June 21, 2007, 08:08:15 pm ---No, I meant health care and pharmaceuticals, as they're not about keeping people healthy - let alone making sure they don't eventually need such things, ever - but making sure they need something to fix what could otherwise be addressed, or even avoided, with a balanced lifestyle. And everyone involved in either or both of those 'fields' is an accomplice, whether unwittingly.
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Just 'coz you read it in one of those cool blogs you read doesn't make it so ...
You attribute motives to industries that I doubt you have any knowledge of nor experience with -- if you do, please correct me.
If not, please return to shearing your sheep ... erm girlfriend.
billf:
--- Quote from: shorthair on June 21, 2007, 08:08:15 pm ---No, I meant health care and pharmaceuticals, as they're not about keeping people healthy - let alone making sure they don't eventually need such things, ever - but making sure they need something to fix what could otherwise be addressed, or even avoided, with a balanced lifestyle. And everyone involved in either or both of those 'fields' is an accomplice, whether unwittingly.
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Balanced lifestyle???
Jouster:
--- Quote from: shorthair on June 21, 2007, 08:08:15 pm ---No, I meant health care and pharmaceuticals, as they're not about keeping people healthy - let alone making sure they don't eventually need such things, ever - but making sure they need something to fix what could otherwise be addressed, or even avoided, with a balanced lifestyle. And everyone involved in either or both of those 'fields' is an accomplice, whether unwittingly.
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Yes, spoken by some one with no idea what they are talking about...what medical or pharmacy school did you go to?
Jouster
boykster:
--- Quote from: shorthair on June 21, 2007, 08:08:15 pm ---No, I meant health care and pharmaceuticals, as they're not about keeping people healthy - let alone making sure they don't eventually need such things, ever - but making sure they need something to fix what could otherwise be addressed, or even avoided, with a balanced lifestyle. And everyone involved in either or both of those 'fields' is an accomplice, whether unwittingly.
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People don't want to be "kept healthy", they want to visit the doctor who will give them a cut and dry diagnosis, prescribe a pill that costs $0.01 and fixes the problem permanently in 5 minutes. They don't want to be told to eat a healthy diet, be more active and exercise, avoid high risk behaviour, drink less, etc. They want to be free to do whatver they want.
And if the doctor can't "fix" them immediately, or advises them at all about their lifestyle, they are the patient gets offended and the doctor is "incompetent".
Of course I'm speaking in generalities, but I've been around the industry my entire life and have seen it from a different perspective than you. If you don't think that the PEOPLE of the healthcare industry don't care, then you don't know about fathers and mothers who spend 60-80 hours a week away from their families on a regular basis, missing birthdays of children, going in to do rounds on christmas and thanksgiving, etc.
Now go crawl back in your hole and stop reading blogs....
:soapbox:
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