• Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
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    14 days ago

    Or, you know, you could just have socialised medicine which encompasses the full health care cycle including diagnosis, monitoring, non drug treatments, tailored medical advice and preventative medicine.

    But yeah I guess if that’s off the table cheap drugs is cool too.

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          13 days ago

          I’m struggling to get the joke that I know is staring me in the face. Would you please help me out?

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            13 days ago

            During covid, there were people taking ivermectin to treat it.

            Ivermectin for horses was a popular choice among these idiots.

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              I figured that was the direction it was headed, but I had no idea they had an actual apple paste. But thinking about it, that makes a lot of sense for its intended audience (I mean horses, not republicans, haha).

              Do you think the republicans spread it on toast? Does “an apple toast a day keep the libtard ‘doctor’ away?” 😁

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      14 days ago

      Just like normal testing (well sort of). But from these you will hear only the failures just like from pharma companies you will only hear the hits.

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    14 days ago

    I know so many trans people who can’t access legal health care due to years long waiting lists or very expensive inaffective private health care. In the UK it’s between waiting ~4 years for health care or becoming a criminal.

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    14 days ago

    Stupid.

    People diagnose incorrectly a lot, will probably take incorrect amounts, and if sick will take the medicine incorrectly leading to bacteria and viruses with immunity to more drugs.

    Just…let the doctors and pharmacists do the work, please? At least they have some training and understand interactions/classes of medicine.

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      13 days ago

      let the doctors and pharmacists do the work, please?

      i think this is what everyone wanted here, but the system can’t provide it, so they are resorting to this kind of hackery.

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      he’s not attacking that part of medicine. he has no quarrel with Doctors etc. it’s the exhorbitent amount of money pharmcorp is charging for what can essentially be life saving medicine.