This is inaccurate IMO. Modern day medicine is based on fixing symptoms. Sometimes we have something that ‘cures’ the symptoms of the problem, sometimes we have something that cures the cause of the symptom and sometimes we get it wrong… it is often trial and error. This is evident as soon as one trains in any of the healing practices - myself, just sports therapy.
Don’t get me wrong, it is a business like any other… but a doctor wont misdiagnose in order to delay the healing process… this is not how the ‘business’ works… even in a country as fundamentally corrupt as ‘The US of A’.
It works by the drug companies ‘ensuring’ the right drugs are sold in the event of a certain symptom. So say for example i worked as a drug rep (i nearly did actually), my area may include blood pressure and diabetic meds… i would do whatever was in my (aggressive) sales ability to make sure the doctors and hospitals i visit use my product over another firms product.
I would up-sell the on and off label use of the drugs in question and advise when it can be used - often distorting data from the trials that would have been questionable in their results to begin with (think GSK - I fucking hate that company, but i do know that most large pharms are the same).
In response to bonez question - it is simple. Enjoyment and popularity. It is much more common for a 40 year old male to be harbouring some dormant form of heart disease and stifling an out of control alcohol addiction than it is to have one that is a bodybuilder - i would class these as two extremes… except in this country (UK) it is part of the culture to drink in excess - so the majority of people drink to excess, and this leads (over time) to the addiction and health problems associated with long term alcohol abuse.
I digress.
The thing is, people want to get fucked, they want to get high, they want to forget how they wasted thir pathetic little lives, about their last affair, about their ungrateful and spoilt kids. They need to forget what we are SUPPOSED to be doing (running, jumping, fucking, hunting) and forget that we are all dulled by extreme consumerism and riddled with depression.
Is it a coincidence that the happiest and most productive minded people are regular exercisers? Nope. The natural endorphins supplied by the activities of the active are an absolute MUST for human life, but our culture doesnt surround it - it surrounds using external sources of chemical high - in the majority Cocaine, Alcohol, Caffeine and Nicotine.
Governments (realistically actually - money makes THIS shit-hole of a world go round) naturally cash in on this - we have strived for a ‘high society’ based on the potential intellect of cultures - but have ended up depressing our very souls.
That’s what i believe anyway… i fucking despise humans, and what’s worse is - i am just as flawed, selfish and egotistical as the next.