Re: Drug Rep Tells All

In message <a0d2c59a-63b8-41c8-813e-af565828a277@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, PeterB wrote:

On Apr 5, 3:30 pm, "D. C. Sessions" <d...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In message <ccab3205-4e20-437b-8f2c-441db1897...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Kulacz wrote:

When it applies to human lives instead of something likd a
refrigerator, cost/benefit must be tossed out
for  truth and  the susequent well being of human lives.

So are you suggesting that we shouldn't consider cost when
allocating health care?  That no cost is too high to save
even a single human life?

DC, you always make me laugh. Allopathic medicine as practiced by
mainstream healthcare saves lives almost exclusively during
administration of ER medicine (ER), which is, as I've said, the only
treatment venue based on, and successful because of, nutrient
analogues. Except for some essential surgeries, life extension in
other treatment settings is rare. Please do not bemoan my lack of
appreciation for artificial life support, or attempt to politicize the
issue with references to Terry Schiavo. That particular "advance" in
medical science would represent a trivial response in this discussion
due to the overall limited number of patients affected. Policy
decisions on the basis of cost-benefit analysis is really only applied
where it matters the LEAST --in non-emergency medicine and in very few
other circumstances. If you disagree, tell us what drugs or
procedures in non-ER medicine are extending lives, by how much, at
what cost, and with citations.

The simplest is neonatology.

However, my point was much larger and I'm quite happy
to include infant nutrition and prenatal nutritional
supplemenation in the whole equation -- which I seem
to recall is something you'd agree with.

We can have contests in forcible urination on some
other thread if you insist.

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