"Medical Prostitution"

The Daily Dish from Atlantic

March 12, 2008 

    A reader writes:

        We now have "medical marijuana".  Could we not have "medical prostitution"?

        I recently saw a statistic that men who have 200 orgasms or more per year have a lower incidence of many maladies including prostate cancer.

        I'm a busy wife. I adore my husband, Andrew, but 4 "shots" a week sounds like kind of a lot for me to handle. Could a man (not MINE, of course) get a prescription from his doctor for medicinal sex?

    If you count sex as mental and psychological therapy for men, my reader has a point.

i was going to write about  a different  type of   "medical prostitution"?

Medical professionals selling their Soul to the Insurance companies and  politicians  and  mouthing  stupid shit.


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Big Pharma today spends more on marketing than on R&D ($3 billion/ year marketing to consumers, $24 billion/ year to healthcare professionals).


Many experts argue that these new guidelines are based on a faulty interpretation of the medical evidence and could actually prove harmful to many people who wind up taking the drugs. Critics also note that eight of the nine authors who crafted the revised guidelines were being paid by the companies that make statins.

At an earlier time, pharma executives couldn't bear the idea of advertising drugs. But today the industry believes people benefit from the many informational ads. In U.S., you can't flip a TV channel without coming across an "ask-your-doctor" ad every 5 minutes

In 2015, one-third of America was on opioids (largely in the form of painkillers). The country is addicted.
Reuters Business Insights calls this: "the corporate creation of disease."
We not only sold our soul but allowed the devil to eat it too!

HAS MEDICINE SOLD ITS SOUL?

BY PROF ALASTAIR CAMPBELL, CENTRE FOR BIOMEDICAL ETHICS

In Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician, Dr Sandeep Jauhar writes:

“Most of us went into their medicine to help people, not to follow corporate directives or to maximise income. We want to practice medicine the right way, but too many forces today are propelling us away from the bench or the bedside.”

Jauhar’s sense of betrayal and personal failure is common among many doctors today. They embarked on the practice of medicine full of high ideals, choosing it as a career, not just for prestige and a good income, but because they wanted

to help people in their time of need, to make a difference in patients’ lives, as they battle with illness or disability. But the disillusionment comes early on, as shown by many studies of medical students – as the joke puts it, they progress, not from preclinical to clinical phases of study, but from pre-cynical to cynical! Their youthful idealism fades as they encounter the realities of medical practice today and work with some senior doctors who seem to be interested only in money and personal fame, not in the health of their patients.