I am not anti-pharmaceutical. As a physician, I recognize that
pharmaceuticals have a place in health-care. However, I object to the cozy
relationship between the pharmaceutical industry and physicians, in which
the pharmaceutical industry provides physicians with "education" and "gifts." I
also object to the dominant role of pharmaceuticals in health-care and
patient education.


Since life is metabolism, and since metabolism depends on food and water,
health-care should focus on food and water. Of course, this logic threatens
the monopoly that the pharmaceutical industry enjoys over health-care. It is
appalling that the pharmaceutical industry is making a fortune, while farmers
are going bankrupt. Society needs fewer pharmacists and more "farm-assists."

Competing interests:
None declared