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Unholy Alliance
By ANTONIO M. REYES

In a recent meeting with Provincial Health Officer, Dr. Jose Lito Trumata, he hinted at a possible collusion between medical doctors and pharmacies and pharmaceutical companies.

He said this was why he would propose to the Provincial Board an ordinance banning private boticas within a kilometer radius of the new Provincial Hospital at Dongon.

It reminded me of an essay written by Bill Maher in his bestselling book "The New New Rules" where he accused American doctors of being drug pushers of giant drug companies.

He said there are now diseases that were never heard of before like Irritable Bowel Syndrome or IBS for Loose bowel movement, or Social Anxiety Disorder for what we used to call shyness, and Superfluous Rigidity Syndrome or IRS for impotence.

I mentioned this because I was diagnosed as hyper intensive almost a decade ago and was prescribed an expensive medication to lower my blood pressure.

But after scanning materials in the internet on the subject, I stopped taking the medication prescribed, and Viola - my blood pressure was now 151 over 78.

Maher said that if you believe you need to take all the pills the pharmaceutical industry says you do, then you are already a drug addict.

He adds "That the government isn't your nanny. They're your drug dealer and they subsidize illness in America because they have to since there's no money in healthy people.

The money is in people who are alive but with one or more chronic conditions that put them in need of Celebrex or Nasonex or Valtrex or Lunesta."
Maher claims that "Fifty years ago, children didn't even get type 2 diabetes," but that now "it's an emerging epidemic, as are a long list of diseases that used to be rare and now have been mainstreamed – like asthma and autism and acid reflex, arthritis, allergies, adult acne, attention deficit disorder and that's just the A's."

He said that in the finale analysis diet and exercise was just as effective a cure for depression as Paxil and Zoloft.

Let's remember this the next time a doctor prescribes an expensive plasibo for our imagined illness.