Teacher Terry
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By the way, all this talk of the various drugs that folks take - or refuse to take - we had a whole thread on statins. I've probably said this before: If you don't trust your doctor to prescribe meds for you - you should probably find a doctor you DO trust to prescribe for you. I agree we should all do our own research on such things, but why pay for advice you're not going to take. You could save a lot of money by skipping the doctor if you don't want to follow her/his advice. Just my thinking on the subject but YMMV.
Medicine is a practice and not an exact science. The only person that lives with the results is the patient. Everyone’s bodies are different as are their reactions to medication. Studies that disprove older research can take decades to be published and for doctors to change their conclusions.
Many of us have seen older friends and relatives harmed from widely accepted treatments. I have seen people blindly trusting doctors and never questioning their treatment. Some of us take a more proactive approach that involves taking personal responsibility for the outcomes whether they are positive or negative.