US Politics on Yik Yak | You can’t convince me otherwise that US Healthcare is just throwing drugs at a disease and hoping it works, all while the doctor profits a lot from the pharmaceutical incentive. Our preventative care is good but most of our treatments are meh

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US Politics 1w

You can’t convince me otherwise that US Healthcare is just throwing drugs at a disease and hoping it works, all while the doctor profits a lot from the pharmaceutical incentive. Our preventative care is good but most of our treatments are meh

Anonymous 1w

Look, the U.S. healthcare system sucks big ass, but there are a lot of people who are dedicating their lives to trying to find good treatments. The industry sucks, but the doctors, nurses, and scientists aren’t part of some evil conspiracy. You don’t go into cancer research if your motivation is greed.

Anonymous 1w

It’s not the doctors profiting my guy, it’s all the people sitting in the big chairs who never interact with patients who get all the money. My dad is a doctor, my brother in law is about to start residency, and I’m in med school rn. My dad has 20+ hours of work sometimes, and he hasn’t gotten any significant pay raise in years ever since the pay CUT back in Covid

Anonymous 1w

Not to mention a lot of the medicines are advertised for things they’re not meant to treat just because it might help sell them. Like if there’s a clinical trial where people who took the medicine lost weight in a statistically significant way (which can kinda mean whatever they want it to and doesn’t necessarily imply any causal relationship with the medicine) they get to say it “may help with weight loss” in their ads

Anonymous

#2 1w

I think that a lot of people look at the greed in our healthcare system and conclude from that “all medicine is bullshit, vaccines bad, doctors are hiding the real cure from you, almonds!” But that’s not how it works. I’m not saying there aren’t bad doctors, but the science isn’t the problem here. It’s the commercialization.

Anonymous

#3 1w

Sure, there is money in being a doctor, but it’s directly related to how long they were in training for, and how much work they put in. It’s not an infinite money glitch, and anyone who tells you otherwise is lying to your face and has never actually spoken to a doctor about their life