How Your Family Doc Became a Drug Enforcement Agent
Brownstone Institute,
by
Roger McFillin
Original Article
Posted By: ConservativeYankee,
4/21/2025 4:22:23 PM
Remember when your family doctor was actually your doctor? That quaint historical period when physicians made independent medical judgments instead of reading from pharmaceutical scripts? When they looked at you as a unique human being rather than a collection of compliance metrics needing correction? Those days are f--- gone.
Today’s primary care physician is something entirely different—a pharmaceutical compliance officer with a prescription pad, a corporate protocol to follow, and overlords tracking their every move. They’ve transitioned from healers to hustlers, from medical professionals to medication pushers, from trusted advisors to glorified drug dealers with better parking.
I recently had a conversation with a pediatrician that exposed the naked truth
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 4/21/2025 5:01:17 PM (No. 1937155)
This is pretty scary. I had a primary care doc (for one visit) that was really pushing another COVID shot on me, as well as a flu shot. I told her the COVID vaccines didn’t work, and she eventually left me alone after I agreed to a flu shot - which, I later discovered, was only 17% effective. That did it for me. I question EVERYTHING they say.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Snow Possum 4/21/2025 5:25:35 PM (No. 1937166)
I have known this for years... even with my brother being a well respected family physician.
In 1990 my blood pressure reading of 135/88 was considered 'high normal'. Today, that same reading would have an MD (Medicine Dealer) reaching for his script pad. Same thing with cholesterol. What was once deemed normal is now reason for the latest prescription.
I am 67. I take low dose naltrexone as a prophylactic against inflammatory conditions. On no other meds. Turned down radiation and chemo 10 years ago for a cancer diagnosis, though I did have surgery.
There are things that medicine can help but I would not be surprised that 90% of what is prescribed does more harm than good.
BTW, by brother passed away in 2016... from a medical treatment that went bad.
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Catherine 4/21/2025 5:36:33 PM (No. 1937171)
# 2 - same thing going on with diabetes. I was diagnosed 18 years ago. Back then acceptable blood sugar was between 90-190 and an A1C of 7. Totally reachable numbers. Today, with an A1C of 5, and blood sugar of 115, my friend's doctor wanted to put her on insulin. Thankfully she refused. My son's was also 5 and he was told he's "pre-diabetic." No, he's fine. Diabetes meds are outrageously expensive. My shots are $1000/mo. But I truly was diabetic. There are millions who aren't but drs push the meds. Scary.
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Hermit_Crab 4/21/2025 6:09:34 PM (No. 1937199)
"My" cardiologist accidentally told me ta bit of truth one day when I mentioned some articles that I had recently read on NAC (N-Acetyl Cysteine); that it might be good for preventing blood clots. He told me :"I can't allow you to try any drugs that aren't pre-approved by my Hospital."
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Corndoggies 4/21/2025 6:34:29 PM (No. 1937216)
#4 I take that for my lungs. My soon to be daughter in law who’s about 40 takes it too. She’s a nurse and looks very healthy. I recently entered the Medicare pipeline and the only actual drug I take is 5 mg of Amlodopine. Everything else is supplements. Oh I lied, I got put on gabapentin for a pinched nerve. Don’t tell me anything bad cause I sleep like baby on that stuff.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 4/21/2025 7:04:52 PM (No. 1937230)
#5... Yeah, that Gabapentin does seem to be a miracle drug. It seems to help significantly with MANY things.
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zephyrgirl 4/21/2025 7:08:34 PM (No. 1937233)
I got in a huge fight with my doctor over the original shingles vaccine. I knew several people who got that shot, and promptly developed shingles, so I refused, and told him why. He told me that the people were all immuno-compromised and that's why they got shingles. I asked him how the He77 he knew when he couldn't possibly know them (they all lived in another state). That shut him up, but he pouted. I didn't care, I fired him and never went back.
Doctors probably hate my guts, but I refuse more meds than I take. One even asked me, "who's the doctor here???" I said, "you are, but it is my body, and that means I can veto treatments I don't agree with." (He was trying to put me on steroids for a sinus infection).
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
volksford 4/21/2025 7:16:06 PM (No. 1937238)
YOU dont have a Doctor...the local Hospital has a employee.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
grambo 4/21/2025 7:39:20 PM (No. 1937264)
As a newly retired physician who can thus now speak up, I attest to the author’s words.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Venturer 4/21/2025 7:46:41 PM (No. 1937269)
Todays Doctors work 9 to 5 for some medical outfit.
They are allowed to spend 15 minutes with you, Mostly they send you from one quack that belong to the conglomeration to another quack that belongs.
If you stay with that primary long enough you will meet the whole bunch.
If you go to the hospital a "doctor walks in and says i am your doctor.
Your Primary doesn't see you again or want to see you again until and unless you are lucky enough to survive
The days when a Doctor needed a good reputation to get patients is long gone. Today you get passed around like an old dollar bill.
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