Facing tens of thousands of lawsuits over cancer risks on the popular heartburn drug Zantac, GSK has argued | Facing tens of thousands of lawsuits over cancer risks on the popular heartburn drug Zantac, GSK has argued there's "no consistent or reliable evidence" that the medicine causes any cancer. But a new report in Bloomberg Businessweek says GSK's own scientists have long known about the risks.
Exactly, so much medical care in US and Canada is focused on treating symptoms as opposed to addressing the root causes of the problems. The whole system of having a bunch of specialists who are each laser focused on a particular domain is at odds with holistic view of healthcare. People just get pumped full of random medications that all interact with each other in weird ways to treat the symptoms without underlying problems ever getting addressed.
Which is ironic because a major paradigm of medicine is that you should be a lumper and not a splitter, that is, you look at all the symptoms holistically and try to find the root causes, not cover them up individually.
And yet the medical institutions do the exact opposite and fuck people over because now they don’t feel the symptoms while the root cause is getting worse under the skin.
Exactly, so much medical care in US and Canada is focused on treating symptoms as opposed to addressing the root causes of the problems. The whole system of having a bunch of specialists who are each laser focused on a particular domain is at odds with holistic view of healthcare. People just get pumped full of random medications that all interact with each other in weird ways to treat the symptoms without underlying problems ever getting addressed.
Which is ironic because a major paradigm of medicine is that you should be a lumper and not a splitter, that is, you look at all the symptoms holistically and try to find the root causes, not cover them up individually.
And yet the medical institutions do the exact opposite and fuck people over because now they don’t feel the symptoms while the root cause is getting worse under the skin.
Pretty much