To Medicate, or not to Medicate?

In this day and age, we all seem to be popping pills whenever the road gets rough.  We take them for our headaches, our muscle aches.  We take them when we get sick, and when we don't get better.  We take them when we can't think straight, or we can't think at all.  

Whenever we feel a twinge that lets us know that we aren't happy or happy, we bundle everyone into the car and head off to the doctors to see what they can do to fix us.

What's wrong with this?  Maybe the fact that we are slowly - or maybe not so slowly killing ourselves!  We wonder why our doctors don't take time with us, or really listen to what we are saying before writing that prescription. 

Think about this : "With 3,480 pages of fine print, the physicians' desk reference (aka PDR) is not a quick read.  That's because it contains every piece of information on more than 4,000 prescription medications."

How do we expect our doctors to know all this?  Maybe we need to learn how to live without popping pills again.

One last thought: Have we really increased our life expectancy?  Do you see the average person living to 90?  The truth of the matter is that we are saving more people that would have died earlier in life than say 50 years ago.  That means that they live longer, but you don't necessarily.

Enough Said.

- The BITCH -