If you’ve read Cracked sometime in the past year, you know that this is true. AKA, corporations literally pay hospitals to use their products even if the disease doesn’t pertain to the medicine’s array of uses. And they use the most expensive, most cost effective, and least effective method to solve things. Something with CAT scans and MRIs.
I’m just astounded that you REALLY think that doctor’s are able to get hold of a MRI or CAT scan in overstretched hospitals without a bloody good reason. It’s hard enough to get access when it’s seriously indicated. Whatever hospital you attend must be the envy of the entire country.
If I hadn’t just gone and gotten both a CAT scan and an MRI done, as well as an EEG and a glucose test, for a problem that turned out to be in my head, I’d be inclined to agree.
How about you sit through years of biochemistry, cell biology, physiology, and pharmacology, then spend a few years on the wards, and then when you actually have something like an understanding of pharmaceuticals start talking out your a** about ‘the evils of western medicine throwing pills at people.’
scarily often. people dr shop until they find someone who’ll give them what they want. and having gone to the doctor with a problem, they often don’t want to be told (as they often are) just go home and rest.
When your entire field of study is based more on its profit then actually curing a specific disease (where’s the money if there’s nothing and nobody to cure?), it may be an indication that something is a bit off…
i must have missed the profit lectures somewhere between ethics, guest lecturers from doctors without boarders, diagnostics and the ‘you’ll have to work 36 hour unpaid overtime shifts because if you’re not there we’ll be understaffed and someone might die’ talk. By the end of my first year most of my year level had already done a stint overseas or in rural areas volunteering with aid organisations. If you join medicine for easy profit you’re a moron. yes it can be well paid, but there’s nothing easy about it.
Yeah, and at the end of the day, realise that placebos are actually more effective than the toxic drugs, even more so when the recipient believes they’re getting the real deal. Double-blind my arse! The only reason the toxin out-performs the placebo in some cases is because the recipient experiences adverse side-effects, and therefore believes they’re getting the actual “medicine” and according to their beliefs, so it is.
No, not my childhood.
inb4 Tetris = architecture failure.
Ah, but the question is, was that really happening when Dr. Mario was first made?
If so, then why the hell not. That’s hilarious.
if you listen to the dr mario song by brentalfloss, he can cure anything so long as its fever or the chills
Take off your pants
okay now lets see
turn your head and cough
okay now do me
please?
I wonder if anybody knows that it’s a jar.
Apparently not. Trolls will be trolls :I
about time somebody did.
If you’ve read Cracked sometime in the past year, you know that this is true. AKA, corporations literally pay hospitals to use their products even if the disease doesn’t pertain to the medicine’s array of uses. And they use the most expensive, most cost effective, and least effective method to solve things. Something with CAT scans and MRIs.
And we’re not a capitalist society. lol
I’m just astounded that you REALLY think that doctor’s are able to get hold of a MRI or CAT scan in overstretched hospitals without a bloody good reason. It’s hard enough to get access when it’s seriously indicated. Whatever hospital you attend must be the envy of the entire country.
Oh please shut up and sell me some more snake oil.
I was able to get an appointment for a CAT scan to check for a sinus infection. I don’t think we are as stretched as you think we are.
Very late to the discussion, but same. It wasn’t even an infection – my nasal breathing was/is noisy, and they tried to use a CT scan to diagnose it.
Saw some cool moving colours while in the machine.
Effect meet cause. Cause meet effect. Now that you are properly acquainted, why don’t you get to know each other better.
very true.
If I hadn’t just gone and gotten both a CAT scan and an MRI done, as well as an EEG and a glucose test, for a problem that turned out to be in my head, I’d be inclined to agree.
How about you sit through years of biochemistry, cell biology, physiology, and pharmacology, then spend a few years on the wards, and then when you actually have something like an understanding of pharmaceuticals start talking out your a** about ‘the evils of western medicine throwing pills at people.’
Yeah cause that never happens
Agreed.
And ironically, they’re probably the same people who harass their doctors wanting antibiotics for a flu virus.
People actually do that? I’m no doctor, but even I know that antibiotics only work on bacteria.
Well, you’re smarter than a good portion of the world. Good for you ^^
scarily often. people dr shop until they find someone who’ll give them what they want. and having gone to the doctor with a problem, they often don’t want to be told (as they often are) just go home and rest.
When your entire field of study is based more on its profit then actually curing a specific disease (where’s the money if there’s nothing and nobody to cure?), it may be an indication that something is a bit off…
i must have missed the profit lectures somewhere between ethics, guest lecturers from doctors without boarders, diagnostics and the ‘you’ll have to work 36 hour unpaid overtime shifts because if you’re not there we’ll be understaffed and someone might die’ talk. By the end of my first year most of my year level had already done a stint overseas or in rural areas volunteering with aid organisations. If you join medicine for easy profit you’re a moron. yes it can be well paid, but there’s nothing easy about it.
Yeah, and at the end of the day, realise that placebos are actually more effective than the toxic drugs, even more so when the recipient believes they’re getting the real deal. Double-blind my arse! The only reason the toxin out-performs the placebo in some cases is because the recipient experiences adverse side-effects, and therefore believes they’re getting the actual “medicine” and according to their beliefs, so it is.
Actually, I’m wondering why a plumber is a Doctor all of a sudden.
I love that game! I still play it.
Yes. Matter of fact, quite literally everyone has thought of this and made this joke.
So Dr. Mario and Dr. House must have gone to the same medical school.
American medicine, don’t drag us into your crap healthcare system ways.
Bad Argument hippie
Why hasn’t someone photochopped in House into this yet?
If Mario practiced alternative medicine, would he just through sorcery and magic at the viruses and hope the placebo effect works in time?
Weren’t those pills megavitamins? Or was he just doing the Cave Johnson thing by throwing science at the wall?