David Healy, psychiatrist and Cardiff University professor addresses the question: Can Industrialized and Marketized Healthcare be Made Universally Available?
(Mar 25, 2009 at Cornell University)
David Healy has long been an outspoken critic of the pharmaceutical industry's influence on the practice of medicine, arguing that Prozac and SSRIs (selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors) can lead to suicide, and calling attention to the amount of ghost writing in current scientific literature. During his Mar. 25, 2009 visit to Cornell, Healy discussed the role of the pharmaceutical industry in modern medicine and the inherent conflict between its support of evidence-based medicine and the evidence that few modern best-selling drugs actually deliver medical benefits superior to older, cheaper alternatives.
What kind of medical treatment are American citizens are receiving?
This is the most important question. Iatrogenesis is number 3 cause of hospitalizations in America.
Iatrogenesis is disease caused by the treatment.
Many medicines that are on the market are dangerous but American citizens are not informed.
Take good care of your health!
justana2 2 years ago
Social security and medicare have wonderfully serviced many tens of millions of Americans successfully. In that regard, it has been a big success. If controls has been in place that prevented the Congress from using it as an atm machine everything would be fine with it (other than the rising costs of health care need to be addressed). We need to roll it all forward into a single payor system that has the proper controls and regulates costs. Problem solved.
CHWful 2 years ago
The Government has done such a wonderful job of managing Social Security, Medicare and regulating the Financial Institutions I just cant wait till they take over my Medical Care. And what is another Trillion a year of debt compared to the 56 Trillion in unfunded liabilities we our wonderful Government has created.
Ebiczebulanious 2 years ago
ok people to get to the point of this you must go to 1:26:32 and listen full volume then you get the message
letitgothinkpositive 2 years ago
whats his name at the beginning
letitgothinkpositive 2 years ago
What's needed in the United States, and what is wanted by most people in the county is a single payer health care system -- a system with everyone in and no one left out.
Aiden057 2 years ago