A month ago, whilst shopping in Tesco, my phone rang and a foreign woman (sounded Indian) said that she was a nurse at my Doctor's Surgery, and they had identified me as being likely to benefit from statins?
Now apart from an annual mot where they check that I'm still breathing and my blood pressure is ok (it always is) the only time I've been to the surgery over the past few years is for the Flu jab, so I'm baffled as to why I'd be offered statins completely out of the blue?
"According to our records, you're 30% likely to die of a heart attack"
"That's good isn't it?"
"No it's not good"
"Well, I don't like the idea of going onto statins, so I'll give it a miss thanks"
I find it strange that if I'd said "Yes", I could have gone onto prescription meds presumably for whatever time I have left?
GPs offices are the marketing arm of pharma.
They're called 'Doctors of Medicine' not 'Doctors of Health'.
As I get older and the more I experience (through others) and read about doctors...the less respect I have for them as a professional body.
There are always exceptions - but they are right up down there with soicitors in my experience. They have to earn my trust which isn't easy because of what I've dealt with before. When I've followed solicitors advice, it's gone against me; when I've done the opposite of what they advised, it's gone for me - I've got a 100% success rate when going against their advice.
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