{"id":355703,"date":"2018-04-07T20:02:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T19:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/dont-automatically-trust-your-doctor\/"},"modified":"2018-04-07T20:02:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T19:02:58","slug":"dont-automatically-trust-your-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/dont-automatically-trust-your-doctor\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Automatically Trust Your Doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Headline reads:\u00a0<a class=\"external external_icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybell.com\/news-analysis\/harvard-investigation-shows-doctors-are-paid-huge-sums-to-prescribe-addictive-opioids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HARVARD INVESTIGATION SHOWS DOCTORS ARE PAID HUGE SUMS TO PRESCRIBE ADDICTIVE OPIOIDS<\/a>. \u201cIn 2010, it was found that roughly\u00a0<a class=\"external external_icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/story\/147318\/100%252C000_americans_die_each_year_from_prescription_drugs%252C_while_pharma_companies_get_rich\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">100,000 Americans die each year<\/a>\u00a0from prescription drugs alone. Now, according to a recent Harvard University analysis, doctors who prescribe these pain-killers are being paid huge sums of money from their manufacturers. The research, which was conducted by Harvard scientists and\u00a0<a class=\"external external_icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/03\/11\/health\/prescription-opioid-payments-eprise\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>, discovered that in 2014-2015 thousands of doctors were paid over $25,000 from opioid manufacturers and hundreds more were rewarded with six-figure sums. Also, the more opioids that were prescribed, the larger the reward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now President Trump is calling for tougher sentencing of drug dealers. The headline there reads:\u00a0<a class=\"external external_icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/trump-opioid-plan-includes-death-155831399.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump opioid plan includes death penalty for traffickers<\/a>. Is that going to apply to these kinds of doctors who are accepting bribes, payoffs, to effect ruin and death into an alarming number of Americans lives? And what will we do with the anti-marijuana warriors when it becomes clear that they are killing innocent people by denying them a natural substance. When we read the headlines,\u00a0<a class=\"external external_icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/studies-legal-marijuana-fewer-opioid-prescriptions-150332441.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Studies link legal marijuana with fewer opioid prescriptions<\/em><\/a><em>,\u00a0<\/em>meaning less deaths, we really begin to wonder what evil arrogance is at foot in the world of medicine.<\/p>\n<p>It is hard to believe how deep this rabbit hole goes. Read what a former and a current editor-in-chief of the two largest most credible medical journals in the world, listen to what they have to say:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"amazon-element-wrapper-custom align-right\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-med-image\"><span class=\"amazon-image-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dark-Side-Statins-Wonder-Cholesterol\/dp\/0983383510?SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;tag=lrc18-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;creativeASIN=0983383510\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41lgiO4RsqL.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"amazon-image amazon-image-medium\"\/><\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-title\"><span class=\"appip-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dark-Side-Statins-Wonder-Cholesterol\/dp\/0983383510?SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;tag=lrc18-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;creativeASIN=0983383510\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Dark Side of Stati&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-author\">Duane Graveline MD<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-lowest-used\"><span class=\"appip-lowest-used\"><span class=\"appip-label label-lowest-used\">Best Price: <\/span>$12.67<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-formatted-price\"><span class=\"appip-formatted-price\"><span class=\"appip-label label-formatted-price\">Buy New <\/span>$12.73<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-disclaimer-new\"><span style=\"display:block;color:#888;font-size: .80em; padding: 0 0 3px 0;\">(as of 06:10 EDT &#8211; <span style=\"cursor:pointer;\" title=\"Product prices and availability are accurate as of the date\/time indicated and are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on Amazon.com at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product.\">Details<\/span>)<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-button\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/aws\/cart\/add.html?AssociateTag=lrc18-20&amp;SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;ASIN.1=0983383510&amp;Quantity.1=1\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/wp-content\/mu-plugins\/amazon-ad-link-lr\/img\/buy-from-tan.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"leftCitation\">\u201cIt is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/04\/mark-sircus\/dont-automatically-trust-your-doctor-it-might-kill-you\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Headline reads:\u00a0HARVARD INVESTIGATION SHOWS DOCTORS ARE PAID HUGE SUMS TO PRESCRIBE ADDICTIVE OPIOIDS. \u201cIn 2010, it was found that roughly\u00a0100,000 Americans die each year\u00a0from prescription drugs alone. Now, according to a recent Harvard University analysis, doctors who prescribe these pain-killers are being paid huge sums of money from their manufacturers. The research, which was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-355703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}