Wednesday, 25 February 2009

• Is our society too dependent on medicine?

  Absolutely. For example, GPs will give out antidepressants to people who show signs of depression, no matter what the underlying cause may be. In fact, nobody asks about underlying causes.
  
  The real problem, though, is that the public has no more interest in underlying causes than doctors do. Doctors can recommend diet and exercise for weight- or diet-related problems until they're blue in the face, but what are the chances that a person will actually go off and radically change his or her life just to accomodate some doctor? Nope... they, too, would rather be on bunches of pills that make their vitals okay, and continue to live the way they want to live.
  
  So... it's a double-edged sword. We are all part of the reason why.
  
     

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