Doctors and Pharmacotherapy

 One of my colleagues that I went to nursing school with was a very hard worker.  She always worked like 5 different part-time/PRN jobs as an EMT and LOVED the field of emergency medicine.  Despite doing her capstone in an ER and all of her experience, she couldn't find a job for 5 months after nursing school.  Eventually, the ER where did her capstone called her for a job and she got it.

She was thrilled and was working there for about 5 months when one day, a doctor asked her, "Hey!! Do you want me to teach you how to do sutures?"  Of course she wanted to.  So she went into a patient's room, and proceeded to do sutures with the doctor by her side.  She left the room, and 5 minutes later, the ER supervisor fired her on the spot of practicing medicine outside of an RN license.

Not only that, but now the supervisor is trying to get her RN license revoked. 

I know that doctors go through a sort of 'hazing' in medical school, but to do this to a new grad RN is just plain MEAN. 

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I have talked before about how I have been amazed at how many medications people on are.  When I worked in a hospital, I assumed that they were on these medications temporarily.  But then I read an article that states this:

• Almost 4 prescriptions per child (age 0-18), and
• More than 31 prescriptions per senior, aged 65 and over!  
• The average American fills 12 prescriptions per year

I'm not sure if this means that if you take Prilosec daily, then you'd be filling it monthly (so 12 per year) or if that statistic means 12 different drug prescriptions, but regardless, I'm astounded by the child prescription rate!!

The Eastern and Southern states fill the most prescriptions, with West Virginia having the highest rate.  I know I work in the field of pharmaceutical research so it may seem hippocritical, but I HATE the overmedication of America.  If naturopaths weren't dubbed as hippies or assumed to not be real doctors, then I would probably go into it.  Actually, I looked into it and they require 4 years of post-grad education and the curriculum is quite rigorous.

I watched the documentary "Food Matters", and it really intrigued me about our current health care state and the potential to cure diseases with vitamins.  The media tweaks cancer data to make it seem like cancer rates are going down, but they count survival rates as living 5 years past diagnosis, and the director of the film remarked that his aunt is in the survivor category but died 1 month after the 5 year mark.

The current method to treat cancer is chemo, radiation, and surgery.  There were some vitamin trials done on how to cure cancer and they found that they were able to cure cancer in some people with the use of IV Vitamin C.  The dose was anywhere between 400 mg to 150,000 mg.  The point is, that even at the highest does there were relatively no adverse side effects.

It seems too easy to be able to cure disease with what we already have on the Earth, huh?  But maybe in the future, medicine will revert back to what civilizations used in the very beginning.  Well, better go take my daily vitamin!