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As a Canadian, there is nothing stranger and more unsettling than watching a drug commercial or a lawyer commercial on Fox 29 out of Buffalo which you can receive here in Toronto.
Doctors are in place to diagnose and prescribe medication. In no way should Joe Sixpack be allowed to recommend a medication to his doctor to prescribe to him. In no way should the doctor be influenced to prescribe this medication from drug-company kickbacks.
Thats like taking your car in for a tune-up, telling your mechanic you need a new muffler because your car is too slow (non-sensical form a car point of view, but thats intentional), and having Ford give the mechanic a free vacation for installing it and convincing the car owner that it was neceessary. Just the car is your heart, the muffler is Vioxx, the mechanic is your GP, and Ford is Merck and Co.
Hell, even driving into Detroit and seeing all the billboards for hospitals is eery. "Your baby will love St. Mike's Baby Ward" with babys in Anne Geddes like photographs sitting in flowers.
Anything to do with good health and living should not be a business from my point of view. A profit should not be made off someone trying to live.
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