Pharmaceutical companies

[wonderwoman]

I just finished reading this book from the library published in 2009
THE G FREE DIET by E. Hasselbeck.

I found several things in the book I would like to share with you because I find them so true. I QUOTE



“Our research has shown that patients may have a long duration of symptoms prior to diagnosis, This includes both children and adults. The delay is not due to the patients failing to seek health care; it is due to physicians failing to consider the diagnosis. This comes down to a failure of physician education on the subject. Generally physicians are not aware of how common the disease actually is, or the best way to diagnose it. Why is this problem exacerbated in the United States? One likely reason is that the pharmaceutical industry has great sway over the direction of medical care in the United States, being responsible for the majority of both medical research and medical education. Celiac disease has received little attention from the pharmaceutical industry because the therapy is dietary, and as a result, until recently there has been little interest in the disease from among university-based academic centers. However, this is changing.


In this country the pharmaceutical industry provides eighty percent of the money for medical research. It also provides a lot of money for postgraduate education, and there just aren’t any drug companies that are interested in researching Celiac.

Simply put: Since there are no drugs to treat celiac disease, pharmaceutical companies stand to gain no profits from encouraging its diagnosis.

We’re so locked into using pharmaceuticals to treat everything that when we come across conditions that we can’t treat with drugs we tend to pay less attention to them. “

[tex]

I can't argue with that. And, it's exactly the reason why the mainstream medical community refuses to even acknowledge the possibility that dietary changes might benefit patients who have inflammatory bowel diseases. Physicians no longer think for themselves, when prescribing treatments - they allow the pharmaceutical companies to do their thinking for them.

That viewpoint is also one of the reasons why Ms. Hasselbeck received negative reviews from so many of the "official" celiac support groups - they continue to defend the "medical establishment", despite the deplorable record of mainstream medicine in diagnosing celiac disease, because they refuse to admit that their GI specialists are totally wrong in denying the existence of non-celiac gluten-sensitivity.

Tex

[Gabes-Apg]

Especially for conditions where it seems diet management can be as effective as medication

Charlotte, this affects australia the same way as there are no australian owned big pharma's ... the meds used in the USA generally get released in Australia within 2 years.

the whole medical system is is puppetiered by big pharma. IMO with global economic crisis the only two industries that didnt have huge downturns in profit were gold mines and pharmaceutical companies.