Comments on: Prescription Meds http://www.wmberry.com/blog/prescription-meds/ William Berry, MS, CAP Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:54:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: William Berry http://www.wmberry.com/blog/prescription-meds/comment-page-1/#comment-2685 William Berry Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:11:26 +0000 http://www.wmberry.com/?p=472#comment-2685 I appreciate you taking the time to write this thoughtful response. I totally agree with you, that we Americans are to reliant on medications. Thank you for sharin your personal experience as well, and highlighting how other countries deal with pain differently. Thank you again. I appreciate you taking the time to write this thoughtful response. I totally agree with you, that we Americans are to reliant on medications. Thank you for sharin your personal experience as well, and highlighting how other countries deal with pain differently.
Thank you again.

]]> By: Sabrina http://www.wmberry.com/blog/prescription-meds/comment-page-1/#comment-2684 Sabrina Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:25:09 +0000 http://www.wmberry.com/?p=472#comment-2684 I'm glad you chose to write about this. I've lived in several parts of the world and can clearly see the differences between the U.S and the rest of the world when it comes to prescriptions. I got two of my wisdom teeth pulled here in the U.S by a very good dentist who I still go to today, I was given a topical anesthetic so that I wouldn't even feel the discomfort of the anesthesia injections. After the procedure, I was prescribed Ibuprofen 800 and Tylenol 3 for the pain (of which I was very grateful for to be honest). The other two I had removed in Italy. The dentist gave me a mouthwash to keep the area clean and suggested I put ice on it as much as possible. Although I was hating life that first day, I got over it and realized there really is absolutely no need to prescribe what I was given the first time around. Americans need to learn to suck it up (myself included). Pain is a part of life, get over it. We ask for pills and doctors give them to us because health care is a business. Then we continue to take them because they were prescribed to us, which means we must need them right? I have worked in doctors' offices and it is ridiculous how pressured they are into prescribing certain brands. Psychiatrists often schedule five patients per hour. I've been to a psychiatrist who listened to me for 10 minutes and sent me on my way with a prescription. Also, many times doctors will prescribe things when they cant figure out what's wrong with you and can only think of that as a solution. I saw a neurologist for a sleep disorder I have. After weeks of numerous tests, his response to me was, "I can't figure out the root of the problem but I can give you these pills to help". At one point I was taking 7 pills a day. Obviously none of these pills were going to cure me, just alleviate my symptoms. When I realized that my doctor had the intention of prescribing these strong pills for the rest of my life, I made a choice to stop taking everything, and to be honest, I don't see much of a difference from when I was on them. People need to stop and evaluate the benefits vs. risks. Many of us forget that taking a pill doesn't cure you, it just makes your symptoms go away so you forget you have the problem. The advancement of medicine, in my opinion, has set back the quality of our health. Isn't it weird that doctors go to "medical" school? Shouldn't it be called health school? Just sayin' I’m glad you chose to write about this. I’ve lived in several parts of the world and can clearly see the differences between the U.S and the rest of the world when it comes to prescriptions.
I got two of my wisdom teeth pulled here in the U.S by a very good dentist who I still go to today, I was given a topical anesthetic so that I wouldn’t even feel the discomfort of the anesthesia injections. After the procedure, I was prescribed Ibuprofen 800 and Tylenol 3 for the pain (of which I was very grateful for to be honest). The other two I had removed in Italy. The dentist gave me a mouthwash to keep the area clean and suggested I put ice on it as much as possible. Although I was hating life that first day, I got over it and realized there really is absolutely no need to prescribe what I was given the first time around. Americans need to learn to suck it up (myself included). Pain is a part of life, get over it.
We ask for pills and doctors give them to us because health care is a business. Then we continue to take them because they were prescribed to us, which means we must need them right? I have worked in doctors’ offices and it is ridiculous how pressured they are into prescribing certain brands.
Psychiatrists often schedule five patients per hour. I’ve been to a psychiatrist who listened to me for 10 minutes and sent me on my way with a prescription. Also, many times doctors will prescribe things when they cant figure out what’s wrong with you and can only think of that as a solution. I saw a neurologist for a sleep disorder I have. After weeks of numerous tests, his response to me was, “I can’t figure out the root of the problem but I can give you these pills to help”. At one point I was taking 7 pills a day. Obviously none of these pills were going to cure me, just alleviate my symptoms. When I realized that my doctor had the intention of prescribing these strong pills for the rest of my life, I made a choice to stop taking everything, and to be honest, I don’t see much of a difference from when I was on them. People need to stop and evaluate the benefits vs. risks. Many of us forget that taking a pill doesn’t cure you, it just makes your symptoms go away so you forget you have the problem. The advancement of medicine, in my opinion, has set back the quality of our health.

Isn’t it weird that doctors go to “medical” school? Shouldn’t it be called health school? Just sayin’

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