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Thank you! Exactly.
Statins are an excellent example.

Nearly twenty years ago I was given 2-3 years to live when diagnosed with Buergers disease. The surgeons, GPs and medical texts all concurred.
This was not acceptable because my boy was 3yo at the time. I'm not afraid to meet my Maker [In fact it will be a glorious day] but my boy needed his dad.

After spending 6 months in hospital - for the last three months I argued with my surgeon who insisted on chopping off my leg [My left foot had zero blood supply] The pain was excruciating and I was on a morphine drip for 5  1/2 months. Eventually I could no longer tolerate the pain and agreed to an amputation.

It took me some time to come back to planet Earth but eventually started doing some intensive research, spurred on by the pain clinics insistence on shoveling some really dangerous medications down my throat.

Over the last 20 years I've known 12 other Buergers patients. [3 IRL, the other 9 through on-line Buergers support groups]
All 12 put their faith in their doctors and followed orders without question. ALL of them died within 3 years after diagnosis.
I've taken responsibility for my own health, refused their liver destroying useless medications, done my research and I'm still alive.

One would reasonably presume that the specialists would be intrigued to know why I've survived while their other patients are dropping like flies. No. In fact for the first seven years I had running battles with the pain clinic doctors in particular.

After my amputation, a nerve ending in my stump grew into a ganglion of nerve endings called a neuroma, which is the cause of excruciating nerve pain. The doctors answer for this is to prescribe Epillim, an anti-epileptic that is also used as a mood stabiliser for the treatment of schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder. Why? Because, and I quote, "Sometimes we find it might help."
They could not have cared any less that Epillim destroys the liver over time, that sudden cessation can kill, that it comes with dreadful side-effects, particularly psychological in nature, nor the fact that it rarely helps alleviate nerve pain.

Nerve pain is extremely distressing. Sleep is impossible. There is no effective treatment other than cannabis.
Over the last 20 years I've known at least 3 other patients from my pain clinic who took their own life because they could no longer cope.

They also couldn't care any less that just a few pipes of cannabis every day alleviates 95% of my nerve pain. It's of no concern to them that cannabis is a safe medication. I've had doctors yell and scream at me for choosing cannabis over their dangerous pHarmaceuticals. When pushed to explain their negative attitude to cannabis, their ONLY objection is "It's ILLEGAL!" SMFH. [If they were honest they'd have said that they get no kick-backs from cannabis]

Had I blindly followed doctors orders I would have died in agony many years ago.

For the record; my GPs have mostly been very kind and supportive. It's the specialists who've been astoundingly ignorant, abusive and treated me with utter contempt and disdain. 

I was skeptical of paying the extra $1,800. per year just to have my own personal Dr....but after talking with him, I understood why he went this way...less stress on him and a better medical business in the sense that each patient was given the time to be fully understood and the time for him to be able to get to know each patient thoroughly, time for him to be able to do research on each patient...so Concierge medicine is the way to go for him and me.

Yeah, if you have a Dr. as good as mine...you'll pay whatever it costs to have access to a great Dr.  The only thing keeping us here in Tall. is the fact that I can't take my Dr. where ever we planned on moving.