re: The ethics of doctors handing out meds as suckers at the end of a visit

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Do kids still treat the Indian shooting a bow as “lucky” on Dum-Dum wrappers?

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It's tootsie pop, dum dum.

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It's doctors and patients faults. No one wants to put in any effort to improve.

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You forgot to include the pharmaceutical companies in that equation as well. They are constantly conducting R&D...which is a good thing. But in doing so they are discovering other effects of potential drugs separate and apart from the focus of the R&D. That's how Viagra came about. The pharmaceutical company was trying to develop medication for heart related chest pain.

So when these unintended side "benefits" are discovered the pharmaceutical companies realize they can make money off of what may otherwise be a failed R&D project relative to the intended focus of that R&D. Thus, they create a "disorder" to "fix" with their product. That's how you get thousands of people who suddenly have Restless Leg Syndrome and NEED medicine to cure it. Or how people suddenly need a drug to stop them from laughing or crying at an "inappropriate" times.

Big pharma gives doctors huge benefits to push this shite on the public....a public that has been conditioned to desperately want a pill to fix and and every conceivable "problem".

What 7 year old wants to pay attention in school or has a great attention span to focus on something they aren't interested in? They don't have a "disorder". That's simply called being 7...though some are more hyperactive than other. We all dealt with that. But eventually we matured, developed some self-discipline, and realized there are things we sometime have to focus on even if it isn't enjoyable. But why go through the difficult process to develop that self-discipline when you can just take a magic pill? Or more to the point, why, as a parent, go through the difficulty of raising and active kid when you can just continue your same disinterested lifestyle by "curing" your kid by simply sedating him/her?

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but sometimes a pill is what works the best.

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I think it's really screwing up kids. I agree sometimes it works, but the habit of throwing out pills has led to some disastrous results.

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I think it's really screwing up kids. I agree sometimes it works, but the habit of throwing out pills has led to some disastrous results.

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Well, it’s certainly done nothing to curb the suicide rates amongst young people especially, but then, I’ve heard everything from blaming racism to even climate change on that.

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But does the sucker have the proper enzymes it in like real pineapple to impart the benefit you are expecting?

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All I can do is try.

And as medical Science progresses it makes sense that more medications are being taken on average. That’s common sense. As things are invented they get used

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You’re whole “people don’t want to help themselves” bullshite is pretty misinformed and offensive

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You're right, the 60 something percent of obese Americans all have thyroid problems

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You forgot to include the pharmaceutical companies in that equation as well. They are constantly conducting R&D...which is a good thing. But in doing so they are discovering other effects of potential drugs separate and apart from the focus of the R&D. That's how Viagra came about. The pharmaceutical company was trying to develop medication for heart related chest pain.

So when these unintended side "benefits" are discovered the pharmaceutical companies realize they can make money off of what may otherwise be a failed R&D project relative to the intended focus of that R&D. Thus, they create a "disorder" to "fix" with their product. That's how you get thousands of people who suddenly have Restless Leg Syndrome and NEED medicine to cure it. Or how people suddenly need a drug to stop them from laughing or crying at an "inappropriate" times.

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I agree completely.

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Big pharma gives doctors huge benefits to push this shite on the public....

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Incorrect. It used to be true. Now there are strict laws against it. You can look up your doctors name on a website and see exactly how much they received from pharma each year. But that amount was not cash. Every time a rep brings my staff some donuts (which I am too busy to eat) - it gets added to my total amount.

The narrative that physicians are in bed with pharma is no longer valid. Drop it.

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What 7 year old wants to pay attention in school or has a great attention span to focus on something they aren't interested in? They don't have a "disorder". That's simply called being 7...though some are more hyperactive than other. We all dealt with that. But eventually we matured, developed some self-discipline, and realized there are things we sometime have to focus on even if it isn't enjoyable. But why go through the difficult process to develop that self-discipline when you can just take a magic pill? Or more to the point, why, as a parent, go through the difficulty of raising and active kid when you can just continue your same disinterested lifestyle by "curing" your kid by simply sedating him/her?

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I agree completely. I argue this with my patients and their parents every day in my clinic.

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Pineapple was rare.

Good for another reason too.

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Pineapple is supposed to improve the taste of male ejaculate. My wife agrees, but I'm a little self conscious about masturbating into an opened can of pineapple chunks.