How Much Compliance Is Enough?
HOW ABOUT YOU? ARE YOU COMPLIANT “ENOUGH?”
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Basic Drug Math:
314 Million US Citizens. 3.8 Billion Drug Prescriptions Per Year.
What is wrong with this picture?
The Medical Profession thinks what is wrong is “non-compliance”.
“The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has introduced uniform standards for compliance … The top rating is awarded to plans that achieve 70%-80% compliance in hyperlipidemia, hypertension, and cholesterol management in their members.”
I responded to this article with a quick, “Maybe people don’t comply because they know ‘uniform standards’ medicine is dangerous to their health…” or words to that effect. But the implications continued to concern me.
1. I was intrigued to learn that the patient can experience “supposed” or “perceived” side effects. To my mind, the paternalistic, dismissive attitude embedded in those adjectives explains a good deal of compliance/adherence failure. “It’s all in your head.” with its devastating psychiatric impact is nearly as bad an excuse for the failures of official medicine as the horror the non-existant Shaken Baby Syndrome, which has dozens of parents in jail, becuase their child died from a vaccine toxic reaction. You must attend our Shaken Baby Syndrome webinar, February 5, 2014, 9 to 10 PM EST. (will be archived).
See here: http://drrimatruthreports.com/sbs_webinar.html
If I believe that I know your reality better than you do, you are going to resist what I tell you about you. And you’ll be right to do so.
2. How many medications does the average Big Pharma customer take? 10 medications? 23 medications? Of course patients are non compliant/adherent! There is no rational way to excuse such normative, but certainly not normal, polypharmacy. And patients instinctively know it, resisting medication soups for all the wrong/right/possibly life-saving reasons.
3. If the patient finds something natural, cheap and gentle that works, do you give them time to tell them that, guide them and assist them in that completely rational decision in your brief, rushed and doctor-directed moments with the patient whom you may barely know? Probably not. It would not be efficient and that is what matters, isn’t it?
In the unlikely event that the patient brought you that information, are you knowledgeable, skilled or experienced in evaluating, recommending or guiding the patient in the use of natural/advanced/alternative treatments including herbs, frequency medicine, homeopathy, nutrition, detoxification and the like? Probably not. And the patient knows it or you would have already recommended these options.
4. Human interactions are messy. The patient knows that your knowledge is limited and that your interest is limited as well. They are seeking a life on their own terms. You are seeking a schedule and a quick, compliant fix to a narrowly defined problems.
The two are very different agendas and the high rate of patient resistance to your agenda is not surprising at all to me.
Here is the article to which I refer: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/818850_9
One more thing about why patients are non compliant. Just do the math. We are talking about better than 10 prescriptions for each and every man, woman and child in the United States.
And here is, of course, the Bottom Line from the second article in the series:
“• 33%-69% of medication-related hospital admissions are [sic] caused by poor compliance, with the total cost as high as $100 billion per year.
• Retail pharmacies lose nearly $8 billion yearly from non-refilled prescriptions.
• Patients with chronic illnesses who don’t fill their maintenance prescriptions or take them as intended cost the pharmaceutical industry $188 billion per year.”
Big money for selling ineffective, even harmful, FDA-approved nostrums.
Pharmaceuticals, properly used, are among the single greatest cause of death in the US according to multiple peer reviewed studies published in JAMA and similar. And that just counts the in hospital deaths from properly used drugs!
Improperly used drugs plus properly used ones make a lot of people really sick.
Those who don’t die first can be reasonably assumed to protect their biology with or without cognitive awareness that that is what they are doing. The survivors are those who pay attention to their own health and supplement their diet, knowing mal and under nutrition to be the root cause of what WHO identified in 2002 as the “preventable, noncommunicable diseases of under nutrition…”
We are the most vaccinated, most medicated and sickest developed country in the world.
Think about it: perhaps the basic reason patients do not comply is that they are acting on the basic instinct which all of us should have – to survive!
Yours in Health and Freedom,
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