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Nah. The surrounding conversation here is an absolutely beautiful example of why people shouldn’t be able to take whatever they want, whenever they want.

The facebook/youtube grade quackery is everywhere.

by coryrc2 hours ago|

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I see both points of view. In capitalism, it is government's job to compensate for negative externalities. Government restricted common people from making voluntary contracts with antibiotic manufacturers because of antibiotic resistance, but that creates a new negative externality of preventing people from healing themselves cost-effectively. So government should be providing the doctors for nearly-free so people can still get treatment.

by nekusar7 hours ago|

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There's a big difference of telling OTHER PEOPLE what drugs and stuff to do, and CHOOSING FOR YOURSELF.

Call it quackery, or whatever other name. I do not trust the medical establishment. Most don't even follow scientific guidelines for treatment. They're lucky to even read the old MR. Usually its for 'cover my ass' reasons, and not correlating treatment.

I've even known women friends who had doctors say "oh its hysteria", or "lose weight", for a variety of issues. And when they go to a decent doc, its correctly identified as endometriosis. And of course the shit docs won't tell you they're shit. They have your money already. And insurance sees "doctor visit" so any others are out of pocket.

So yeah, I do my own research. I pay for my own tests. You can contact cheap labs out of country for a variety of tests.

And in the end, I'm capable of treating myself, either with the drugs, or synthesizing it myself. I don't need your or anybody's permission.

by zahlman3 hours ago|

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Unregulated use of antibiotics has negative consequences for the rest of society, in that it promotes antibiotic-resistant bacteria strains. Many people try to take antibiotics (and pressure doctors for prescriptions) for likely viral infections where there's no chance of them working. Most people aren't great with attention to detail (qv: you misspelled both antibiotic names) and won't finish a course of antibiotics if symptoms fade even when they're explicitly instructed to do so (which, again, is important for avoiding the emergence of antibiotic-resistant strains).

The regulation occurs for a damn good reason.

Also, please don't advertise here.