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Granted, with certain protocols in place, and other restrictions, should pharma be more over the counter?

Case in point I have strep. Just waited for 2 hours for a doctor to do a test that came back negative (only tests for the most common strain)

And prescribed me penicillin. 

I knew what I had when I walked in there, just give me the damn perscription. Ffs



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No, people are over medicated as it is.



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No, people are idiots. Healthcare should be available to everyone so that doctors can diagnose them properly and prescribe the drugs. It's not even about abusing them but the loads of people that will kill themselves because they have no idea how to diagnose correctly or do not care which dose to take.

Then again, we might be a lot better off with stupid people killing themselves. Soooo... hell yeah strong prescription drugs should be available to anyone!



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Normchacho said:
No, people are over medicated as it is.

Yep, a pill for every ill. The whole medical proffesion (physical wise) are all pawns to the pharmaceutical industry.



vivster said:

No, people are idiots. Healthcare should be available to everyone so that doctors can diagnose them properly and prescribe the drugs. It's not even about abusing them but the loads of people that will kill themselves because they have no idea how to diagnose correctly or do not care which dose to take.

Then again, we might be a lot better off with stupid people killing themselves. Soooo... hell yeah strong prescription drugs should be available to anyone!

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I kinda like the controll in the hands of the doctors.



That would only make things work.

It's up to doctors to be able to prescribe medicine.



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vivster said:

No, people are idiots. Healthcare should be available to everyone so that doctors can diagnose them properly and prescribe the drugs. It's not even about abusing them but the loads of people that will kill themselves because they have no idea how to diagnose correctly or do not care which dose to take.

Then again, we might be a lot better off with stupid people killing themselves. Soooo... hell yeah strong prescription drugs should be available to anyone!

well supposedly, in other countries antibiotics are available over the counter.

I think such a move would probably save people a lot of time and money.



That's not a good idea, people already feel like then can go buy anything without seeing a doctor first giving them full access would make it worse.



                                                                                     

Are you fucking serious?

I take it you haven't heard of super strain bacteria? People already take antibiotics for infections that they could naturally heal already, and its causing them to evolve immunity.