Pharmacist Kill People?

[koh1995]

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I watched a video recently showing that pharmacists do more harm than good and kill people because of the toxins associated with prescription drugs. Is this true? If so, why do you want to go into pharmacy if it is killing peoples lives? Please let me know. Thanks

 

[PharmtoCS]

If what the video says is true, then the right thing to do must be:

1) Don't prescribe/administer antibiotics for a deadly infectious disease that is 100% treatable. After all, the antibiotics will only kill the patient.
2) Injuries? Headache? Other signs of discomfort? Forget painkillers, let them suffer through it.
3) Pulmonary embolism? Myocardial infarction? Don't bother giving heparin or thrombolytics, those are toxic and will just kill the patient.
4) Diabetic ketoacidosis? Don't give them insulin, it is toxic and will just kill the patient.
5) Anaphylactic shock? They'll get through it just fine. Hold off on the epipen.

 

[happychemguy]

If so, why do you want to go into pharmacy if it is killing peoples lives?

I believe you are mistaking pharmaceutical sciences for pharmacy

 

[mjmjoa]

I watched a video recently showing that pharmacists do more harm than good and kill people because of the toxins associated with prescription drugs. Is this true? If so, why do you want to go into pharmacy if it is killing peoples lives? Please let me know. Thanks

It's the patient's decision if they want to take medication or not. Sometimes it's a risk, and it's the doctor's job to notify them of the side effects. Some medications save lives, some are unnecessary (as mentioned above) that can do more harm than good.

 

[NaOH]

Cuz I'm a wicked person and I want to twirl my luxuriant mustache and laugh as I sell people poison.

 

[PharmNerdMatt]

I am tempted to say:troll: but let's assume he is being genuine.

Don't believe everything you read/see on the internet.
Link to the video?

 

[koh1995]

I am tempted to say:troll: but let's assume he is being genuine.

Don't believe everything you read/see on the internet.
Link to the video?

Here are links to a couple videos:

(this is one video)
(this is another video, it has 18 parts to it, but here is 1 part of it)

LMK what you think

 

[happychemguy]

Here are links to a couple videos:

(this is one video)
(this is another video, it has 18 parts to it, but here is 1 part of it)

LMK what you think

The chemical imbalance of the brain is supported by medical evidence (i.e. measuring neurotransmitter concentrations and its metabolites in depressed victims of suicide compared to those of sudden death), and this is what those drugs aim to restore. It is true that our knowledge of the brain is still lacking, but there are clinical trials that demonstrate the drugs have a positive therapeutic effect even if we don't fully understand what targeting a specific mechanism does. There are also side-effects, there is no secret in that, typically due to selectivity or the nature of the drug target itself. We've seen improvement in this though, for example with antidepressants, compare TCAs to SSRIs.

Don't just take my word for it, find articles yourself on this by searching up "monoamine hypothesis" or common antidepressants.

http://scholar.google.com/
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/scimag/index.php?s= (if you don't have access to the articles you want to read)

One thing the video does get right is that pharmaceutical companies are evil. You're in it for money, so you're getting drugs for weight loss, cholesterol, and whatever instead of diseases that are actually the real killers outside of your market. If you know the drug has some serious side-effects, do you go with it anyways since you might make more money from the sales to make up for the lawsuits? I think it was Vioxx that was a pretty big scandal some time ago.