Modern medicine is subject to the same error as denial of the existence of space. Everyone occupied with it are taken for granted to be part of the same organisation. In reality medical care is offered by loads of different groups. It might be non-governmental organisations, businesses or regions. The best for one organisation is not necessarily the best for another. Moreover, there are such differences between employees and employers. Oftentimes they are contrary to each other.
Someone claimed that all the world’s physicians would deliberate make people ill. One can never get a hundred percent of a group to agree on something. In addition that idea presupposes that all physicians get more pay the more patients they treat. How physicians have their salary determined varies between different countries. This could even be different between different employers. In some countries their income to a great extent consists of bribes. Not from pharmaceutical companies but from their patient’s families! In other countries such are unknown and may be perceived as offensive.
Alternatively all the world’s physicians would not have had enough to do if they did not make people ill. In large parts of the world there are to the opposite a shortage of physicians. Are people in those countries healthier? The self-reported health is instead worse there. Their life expectancy should say something about how bad people’s health is too. To deny this one has to claim their statistics forged as a whole. Something I don’t believe in. I think poor living conditions make people there sicklier.
How patients pay for medical care varies between different countries. In the US it is enormously expensive if one does not have insurance for it. The alternative to private insurance has been politically vilified. In Canada it is to the opposite free of charge to seek modern medical care. People even get paid to cover medication costs. Here in Sweden people pay but only a relatively small sum. For many medications there are upper limits to how much they are allowed to cost. In China people only pay for preventive care. Getting ill one does not pay until one gets healthy. This should create an economic incentive not to tell people they are in fact ill. Which might make the population to appear healthier than it is.
With so large differences nursing staff get somewhat different motives. Their incomes and working conditions differ too much from each other. Such differences are unknown to people which lump them together. For example British physicians have considerably better working conditions than American. It the same way it varies how much care is considered sensible. In some countries hospitals avoid repainting walls with paint peeling off. This to detain patients demanding more from the hospital than what it has resources for.
Pharmaceutical companies have their own motif different from the nursing staff’s. What they earn most from is prolonged medication of chronic illnesses. Particularly if they are common. Medications for rare diseases they can take shameless pay for. This because they own the patent of that very medication. Then they can demand any amount since competition is lacking. Developing new antibiotics I don’t think they invest in. Such are legally set boundaries for when they are allowed to be used. Otherwise bacteria would far too quickly evolve resistance to them. Consequentially they are unprofitable for pharmaceutical companies to develop.
Neither do pharmaceutical companies need to make people ill. The diseases still arising are sufficient to sell treatments for. Usually there is some product for the purpose they can sell. Is there no-one they don’t care. In contrast they happily contribute to boundaries for what is considered ill being shifted. Either by making advertisements depicting something as a problem. Or by lobbying to politicians and organisations. It has happened they have fooled authorities that products they make are safer than they are. However, I don’t think they have more power over medical care than that.
Some medical research is conducted without involvement of pharmaceutical companies. Such are conducted by foundations and at universities. There research may be conducted on how to prevent illnesses. Apart from vaccines given to millions such are unprofitable to pharmaceutical companies. There research may be conducted on diseases primarily affecting the world’s poor. Such the pharmaceutical companies don’t think there are people able to pay for treatment of. To the extent they can practically be prevented there are no interest in this either.
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