Consumerist has some great advice on how to stick it to Big Pharma and save on medications: stop taking them! You may like taking “medicines that have never worked” and “medicines that were never needed” just for fun, but if you just stopped, you’d save so much money! And even if the drugs do work, the problem they’re treating is probably your own fault anyway and could be treated with “lifestyle changes” and “natural” approaches — you probably never even thought of that. We can only hope that insurance companies pick up on these revolutionary tactics too.
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TeacherPatti | 05-Aug-08 at 6:39 pm | Permalink
This kind of crap pisses me off. I have depression, which will require me to be on medication for the rest of my life. Once, I stopped the meds and tried “natural” approaches and “lifestyle changes” and guess what? I almost died. So forgive me, but I get really pissed off at crap like that.
(And, FWIW, some naturalistic type person once did tell me that I obviously “didn’t try hard enough” to get off medication. I’m not a violent person, but when I heard that, I felt the urge….)
hector | 05-Aug-08 at 8:52 pm | Permalink
As someone in the healthcare field, I can’t tell you how many times patients have taken themselves off prescribed medications because “the problem no longer exists.” The problem no longer exists because they
ARE on medications. They put themselves at risk by self-medicating. It’s not a good thing.
Ben | 10-Aug-08 at 1:45 am | Permalink
Not related to this post, but once I decided on going to UMich I found and started reading your blogs; good stuff. I also got a kick out of reading professor Honeyman’s comments on your blog posts. Also, last time I hit the CSE mailroom, your box was overflowing.
Mr. E | 16-Aug-08 at 8:55 am | Permalink
Come home to annarborisoverrated!
me | 16-Aug-08 at 8:59 am | Permalink
You are missed on AAIO