My opinion about medical doctors, leadbelly, is that they are ordinary people like you and me who go to medical school for a variety of perfectly understandable and good reasons, and who generally try to do the best they can for their patients.

I think, however, that they are unduly influenced in their behaviour by the drug companies...and that that leads to doctors prescribing far more drugs for people than are really needed, and actually causing harm in many cases by so doing.

It's not their intention to cause harm, but they are influenced by a larger money-driven system and bureaucracy that's in place all around them. It is that system I am concerned about.

Public health of a nation should not be based on profit at all...it should be seen as an absolute necessity...like putting out fires. It is an essential service to keep the people of a nation healthy, because a nation is an extended family. You don't protect the health of your children because someone PAYS you to do it. You protect the health of your children because it's the right thing to do...because you love your children and care about your children and want them to live and be happy. You happily do it for NOTHING because you value your children. A government should love and care for its own people that way when they are in medical need...not let private industry profit off their illnesses like a huge vulture. A government is meant to SERVE the public. When was that forgotten?

The truth of our present society is that the public is being made to serve the government and private industry. The public is nothing more than a bunch of helpless slaves in our ever more draconian $ySStem, and we all pay daily to keep the wolf from the door. The wolf is running the government, the drug companies, the health insurance companies, the armed forces, the police force, the secret service, and the other major power structures. The reality of our societies is the exact diametrical opposite of what government was orginally intended to be: the servant OF the people.