"Doctors today commonly assert that they practice "scientific medicine," and patients think that the medical treatments they receive are "scientifically proven." However, this ideal is a dream, not reality, and a clever and profitable marketing ruse, not fact."
Read the whole article by Dana Ullman: http://huff.to/ajYzHz
How scientific is modern medicine really?
From the article:
The British Medical Journal's "Clinical Evidence" analyzed common medical treatments to evaluate which are supported by sufficient reliable evidence (BMJ, 2007). They reviewed approximately 2,500 treatments and found:
• 13 percent were found to be beneficial
• 23 percent were likely to be beneficial
• Eight percent were as likely to be harmful as beneficial
• Six percent were unlikely to be beneficial
• Four percent were likely to be harmful or ineffective.
• 46 percent were unknown whether they were efficacious or harmful
hmm everytime I walk into a doctors office, everytime, there is a stupid women in high heals with her briefcase full of samples of the latest drugs. I cough under my breath "drug pusher". it makes me ill cuz then the dotor trys to give that stuff to me. the funny thing is that if there is a side effect to be felt, you better believe I am the one who gets the worst of it. it wierd my uncle was a big wig chemical engineer at upjohn but his brother died of PP MS. MSers are too environmentally sensitive they should be very carful what scripts they take.