Thursday, August 20, 2009

Is this a joke?

Yeah, life expectancies are up according to this study done by our boys down at the CDC. It's too bad we lag behind about 30 other countries.

Pretty odd that we die so young compared to countries that don't spend a quarter of what we do on drugs and surgery. I wonder why that is? I mean, shouldn't we be the healthiest and longest living country on earth, since we take so many more drugs and have such an advanced health care system?

Maybe better living through better chemistry doesn't work, as studies like this one suggest. Maybe our jobs as doctors should instead be facilitating the education of people on how to stay healthy, rather than running obsolete tests and giving drugs based on blatantly faked studies.

Nah! Not with big pharma and a mediocrity awarding health-care system pumping billions into advertising. Moar drugz plez!