tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2536445998093886588.post873027974925692341..comments2023-09-22T04:02:57.780-07:00Comments on No Midazolam: OK Garfield!Never Againhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00809517208101930723noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2536445998093886588.post-91101039147950521632012-02-29T15:51:15.188-08:002012-02-29T15:51:15.188-08:00Another reply...
Garfield - you say you neither r...Another reply...<br /><br />Garfield - you say you neither ridiculed nor insulted, but you're certainly doing so now - along with appeals to authority, poisoning the well, ad hominems and so on which do not befit one claiming the high ground (or one who avoids logical fallacies).<br /><br />Clinical trials are utterly pointless, you say? Fascinating. I trust you never base any personal recommendation on such a thing, nor do you use clinical trials in any way in the building of your medical understanding.<br /><br />You say "If you don't want to take Versed, that's your right". Well that's fine, assuming the patient knows what they are taking. Would you hazzard a guess at how many recipients of this drug are told that it's an amnesiac, not a sedative, and that a not insignificant proportion of patients will have a very bad reaction indeed? Do you imagine any of them are told they will have a waking nightmare, but not to worry - they'll probably forget all about it? Do you suppose many are told that the way it works is not at all well understood?<br /><br />Take a look at this:<br />http://www.askapatient.com/viewrating.asp?drug=18654&name=VERSED<br /><br />Are you going to tell me that a tiny minority of patients - insignificant, dismissible - have a very negative experience?<br /><br />"This will relax you" is not providing informed consent. Oh, I know we're such tiresome people, busybodies really, demanding to know how our bodies and minds are being altered. Frankly, I give vastly more informed consent to my mechanic. "Informed" being the operative word. <br /><br />When the medical industry wants to pass responsibility along to a patient, as it does most of the time, it claims the patient has been properly informed. But when it comes to matters of convenience - such as having an amnesic, compliant customer, being informed appears to be the very last thing they want.<br /><br />You can cut the pompous, snide BS about spending $0.25M before being qualified to discuss what has been visited on the blog's host, and the same for every other victim of medical malpractice for that matter. Recipients of high dosage radiation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not need advanced degrees in physics to understand that they had been severely wronged and damaged. Do you really need more examples?<br /><br />You do a fine job at dispelling any lingering myths about yours being the caring, ethically driven profession, though, hats off there.glenn barderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03701923058009186248noreply@blogger.com