placebo??!!

yup, Dr. Voon administered small doses of antihistamines to 2 of the patients today who had no allergies! one came with lumbago & sciatica and the other one with Meniere's disease. he said its just for placebo effects. nan de kore??! Personally I dont think its okay to like, cheat the patient, take advantage of patients' lack of knowledge and charge them for some unnecessary treatments?!

yeah, placebo effects have been reported in studies to be helpful to the patients. buuut! he has given the patient painkillers for her back pain, and i dunno what he prescribed for Meniere's disease, so why did he still have to do the placebo thingy? i mean like, with the pills that really work, why do you need to give placebos? I think its not helping! is it really useful/necessary in these cases? wakaranai!!

I dont think I'd be a GP too, like, all they think about is money. and they only know things in a broad-spectrum basis. they're a laughing stock for the specialists, like the specialists always blame them for wrong diagnoses, for prescribing the wrong drugs or something, and scoffed at them, like 'where did you get this drug?' "from a GP" 'hmph, no wonder!', something like that. yeah, not all GPs are money-minded or useless, some of them are pretty good because they covered a wide range of medical knowledge and are really good.

still though, after being attached to this particular GP, i guess it kinda opened my eyes to the other part of world. kinda made me reminisce about my pre-medical student life where i believed and trusted EVERYTHING from people who had MD behind their names.

hum...im not saying to the society that we shouldnt trust doctors, im just saying that, in this medical field, patients put their trust wholeheartedly to doctors and they believe doctors can like, heal everything. so doctors shouldnt betray their trust, ne?