• Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    17
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    3 months ago

    Or, you know, you could just have socialised medicine which encompasses the full health care cycle including diagnosis, monitoring, non drug treatments, tailored medical advice and preventative medicine.

    But yeah I guess if that’s off the table cheap drugs is cool too.

    • SteefLem@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      3 months ago

      Just like normal testing (well sort of). But from these you will hear only the failures just like from pharma companies you will only hear the hits.

  • WindyRebel@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    7
    arrow-down
    5
    ·
    3 months ago

    Stupid.

    People diagnose incorrectly a lot, will probably take incorrect amounts, and if sick will take the medicine incorrectly leading to bacteria and viruses with immunity to more drugs.

    Just…let the doctors and pharmacists do the work, please? At least they have some training and understand interactions/classes of medicine.

    • umbrella@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      15
      ·
      edit-2
      3 months ago

      let the doctors and pharmacists do the work, please?

      i think this is what everyone wanted here, but the system can’t provide it, so they are resorting to this kind of hackery.

    • Avenging5@sh.itjust.worksOP
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      2 months ago

      he’s not attacking that part of medicine. he has no quarrel with Doctors etc. it’s the exhorbitent amount of money pharmcorp is charging for what can essentially be life saving medicine.