About half of all people don't take medications like they're supposed to.
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Most medications don't work effectively for a lot people.
You'd believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day. The compliance rate is more like 30% or 40%. Which means that 60% of patients don't take their drugs, and they actually go into these crises, end up in the hospital.
I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
But the main thing is that medication, too, is not all the help.
Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
Today, nearly 40 percent of a senior's healthcare spending is on pharmaceutical medications.
For all of life's discontents, according to the pharmaceutical industry, there is a drug and you should take it. Then for the side effects of that drug, then there's another drug, and so on. So we're all taking more drugs, and more expensive drugs.
I don't do drugs. I never have taken any drugs. I don't believe in them.
There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
Medicines are only fit for old people.