Wednesday, 14 September 2011, WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Ninth Amendment REMINDS READERS NOT TO READ UNLIMITED NEW YORK TIMES DIGITAL CONTENT SIMPLY BY SETTING THEIR FIREFOX BROWSERS TO "PRIVATE BROWSING". The following post apparently has NOT been published as commentary on today's Times' story about the ongoing mania to STOP Xanax because it may help people but is no longer patented. The Ninth Amendment offers NO MEDICAL ADVICE WHATSOEVER which is available in and from Mexico and other foreign countries as listed for profit by Google.
Today's additional FACT FOR THE DAY is that contrary to prevailing belief in the United States, most general physicians here and orthopedic surgeons in particular, even taking into account education costs, are the most overpaid in the world today. Look it up. We would not just trust ourselves and neither should readers. Research with search engines is not exactly mind-taxing.
As for "demon" benzodiazepines especially trade name Xanax (generic name alprozalom) which were ungrateful enough to lose their patent protection as mandated by the U.S. Constitution, anyone who is NOT anxious in today's society is probably the one who is NOT well.
Yet as reported today, many MDs have a fear of or are brainwashed from prescribing benzodiazepines particularly Xanax, or a host of other drugs, because somehow we have become a country where what is really required to practice medicine is not an MD, but a GED, as in about the education of your average DEA agent.
Doctors laugh and usually agree when we share this observation, then they usually tell us it is true. Or physicians may admit fear of the FDA, State Medical Board, insurance, pick your loser running YOUR healthcare who most likely has no medical training and knows they would be in the unemployment line were it not for the 30-year totally failed "War on Drugs".
As for the qualifications of just any MD, one of our fathers was an MD and killed himself with the process certainly accelerated by fellow physicians' filled Rxs which were completely counter-indicated and later hidden by the physicians from the police. Also one of our mothers would have been killed by doctors who said she was a goner had we not stepped in and required the MDs personally to sign any hospital orders before taking her out of ICU.
Perhaps scared of our legal training, the doctors relented, and left in the ICU she in fact then soon completely recovered after a 10-day coma and still walks around just fine today 20 years later. The doctors who would have killed her wrote themselves up as "heroes" in the New England Journal of Medicine.
In any case we encourage you to read the ever-improving Ninth Amendment log which just now is beginning a feature on "Doctor Horror Stories". As for benzodiazepines, the worst doctors to see in our UNMEDICAL OPINION are the ones who have never had the panic or anxiety symptoms, taken the medications, and whose sole source of learning is pharmaceutical company-hosted "shindigs" where patented obscenely overpriced medicines are "in" (such as esoteric antidepressants), and all others that actually are proven and work are "out".
As for benzodiazepines, try a little research and find, say, the Harvard Medical Newsletter article of about five years back where the EDITOR-IN-CHIEF on the front page wrote that in his experience and that of his medical staff, they found that benzodiazepines often were indicated for as long as a lifetime, if that is what improved people's quality of life.
If an M.D. has not had anxiety problems specifically treated with benzodiazepines you can bet in our UNMEDICAL OPINION they have no idea about what they say. MDs today are "trained" with brainless reprimands by the DEA, the FDA, and/or state medical boards, where one is lucky to find someone directing their MD with anything more than a G.E.D.
Remind your MD that they took the Hippocratic oath not a pledge to be directed in their healthcare practice by "secret agents" and young women in short skirts who give doctors' staffs an illegally untaxed "free lunch and samples". Doctors have an ethical obligation WE BELIEVE to read journals and attend seminars which are peer-reviewed by accredited health professionals, not "drug war losers" who are lucky if they can write a proper sentence, nor lazily attend gratis pharmaceutical company junkets pushing the latest patented (VERY IMPORTANT) "medicines".
These wallet-busting mystery concoctions are tested in sham trials usually involving about ten participants and "indicated" for whatever the pharmaceutical company pals at the FDA looking for drug company jobs will allow them to put in their bogus attorney-written literature.
While studying the Harvard Medical Journal and Lancet at luncheons for the editorial board of the Ninth Amendment log, although we of course can offer NO MEDICAL ADVICE, unlike the young women in short skirts and the G.E.D. government secret agents, we would be smart enough we hope not to purport to provide "medical care" for our fellow humans solely on the basis of corporate America's commands, including know-nothing health insurance companies and the payment schedules of government-financed health plans.
And while you are at it, go try to get a good night's sleep in the hospital. We dare you! We seriously also recommend you INSIST on bringing someone to spend the night with you in your $2,000+ a night room, as hospitals well know that the "night shift" is the best place for hospital corporations to assign the sadists (NOT EVERYONE ON THE NIGHT SHIFT) who wake patients roughly to take blood every ten minutes for no reason but anger over their underpaid horrible jobs and take great sick joy in NEVER answering calls for the bathroom or more pain medicine. Funny, just like the DEA, which would rather destroy your liver putting poison in your hydrocodone than have you experience "unauthorized pleasure" while the secret drug agents are out illegally in US Government cars getting smashed on alcohol and driving into walls.
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The fact for the day is that the population of Iceland is somewhat greater than that of Vermont, but not by much. The hidden fact for the day is that Idiot Governor Rick "Payback" Perry now claims credit for the cleaner air of Texas which he has fought every step of the way. Texas has the dirtiest air in the Nation.
Comment:
Thank you for another thoughtful and honest piece, sir. Remembering next to nothing from Professor Blinder's (ironic name? you decide) Economics 101 class at Princeton, I have little to offer on the subject other than I do recall reading that Karl Marx wrote "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs".
(Forgive Mr. Marx his use of the masculine in his designation of peoplekind as that most likely was the style of the time). Would it be bad to revisit that theory as well? Anyway the editorial staff of the Ninth Amendment at www.waronnothing.blogspot.com suggests from experience that you not jump into another quasi-"science" such as law, law school being recommended exclusively by persons who have not attended it.
A staff member at a global bureau who did study English only said one should avoid ending sentences in prepositions unless one really feels it is necessary. Wishing you a grand evening at the Y.