just to find out what's wrong. Doctor's tend to over-prescribe.
House: Have you been keeping up with her medication?
Woman: She doesn't use that except in emergencies. Pharmaceuticals are very risky.
House: You know what else is risky? NOT BREATHING. That has some minor side effects such as DEATH. Your doctor, after carefully weighing all the options, decided that NOT BREATHING is more dangerous than [insert minor side effect of pills].
(Paraphrased, I don't remember the exact lines.)
repeat for 20 years.
me: realizes doctor prescribes anti-biotics for allergies, the flu, and the common cold.
The problem isn't so much with doctors as it is with patients who see ads for made up conditions on TV and try to talk their way into samples with the talk to your doctor guides to scoring drugs. Ban advertising, ban bribing doctors to push pharma junk, the problem largely dissolves.
(I accidently pushed to downmod instead of upmod you, sorry. I will go upmod 2 others.)
If you think your doctor is not treating you properly seek a second opinion. But you are not qualified to make the judgements about your medication.
A second opinion? can't afford the first. I've gotten pretty good at knowing what's gone wrong with my own body over the years.
I'm no pharmacist for sure, or a doctor. But every time (that I recall) going to a doctor I get a prescription. Why is it I get a prescription for the common cold? or the flu. No prescription can cure those (at least that I'm aware of). Better to tough it out.
why is it exactly that you trust MD's so much? I don't trust them any more than I trust mechanics, and my body is more important than my car, and more complex.