What Purpose do Pharma Reps Serve? AntonySammeroff February 9, 2024 3932 When it comes to healthcare, what patients want is simple. The best treatment, with the fewest side-effects at the best price. What is the goal of a Pharma Rep? It’s to schmooze doctors and convince them to ... Read More...
How Can We “Trust The Science” When Medical Journals Are Compromised? AntonySammeroff January 6, 2024 4709 Our Institutions Are Broken! Peer-reviewed medical journals are supposed to provide objective, scientific evidence to the medical community on the safety and efficacy of medical treatments, but we face huge ... Read More...
Standardized Care Does Not Guarantee a High Standard of Care AntonySammeroff December 26, 2023 3964 The “Standard of Care” is the term for the reasonable degree of care a medical profession is expected to provide a patient with a given condition and doctors in hospitals are expected to adhere to it.
News Flash: Pharmaceuticals Don’t Cure Diseases AntonySammeroff December 13, 2023 4519 What's more - Doctors Don't Even CLAIM That They Do! That's why they always use the term "treat" disease. Pharmaceutical medications don’t usually cure diseases, they only mitigate symptoms. Fo... Read More...
US Healthcare: There’s No Competition AntonySammeroff November 21, 2023 4381 Imagine you are a young, idealistic doctor. After some years in clinical practice at a private hospital you tire of the fact that more of your time is spent filling out forms and attending staff meeting than wi... Read More...
Tubes In Trouble AntonySammeroff November 13, 2023 4435 When you look at it, the human anatomy is all just a series of flowing tubes: the blood vessels, the lungs, the nerves, the alimentary canal, and what have you – each of the vital organs are also made of tubes.... Read More...
Pharma Exploit the Mentally Ill… (make money from it and go unpunished) AntonySammeroff October 24, 2023 5119 Can you imagine giving people who are already suffering from mental illness a drug that you know will make them worse? Sounds like something out of a sadistic horror movie. Long-term mental illness suffer... Read More...
You Definitely DON’T “Get What You Pay For” (when it comes to healthcare) AntonySammeroff October 20, 2023 5007 Healthcare spending in America fast approaches $4 trillion a year. The dirty secret is – most healthcare isn’t actually that expensive to provide.
Pharma Call it “Preventative Medicine” (I call it Stupid) AntonySammeroff October 5, 2023 4588 The problem with pharmaceutical medicine is that you only get to treat people when they’re sick.
More Care IS NOT Caring More; Public Health vs. Sickcare AntonySammeroff September 22, 2023 4650 In the 1900s infectious diseases were rampant in New York City because New Jersey, just across the Hudson River, was basically a swamp that bred mosquitos. Every summer, the mosquitos would just fly across the ... Read More...
