HaLeiVi -“Why do you ask how I know? I didn’t make any sting operation on them. That is their claim to fame. They call themselves integrated doctors.”
The reality is that they will only play Alternative medical doc. I knew s/o who was both and did both, but eventually he moved more & more towards Alternative. Then he only did alternative. So those guys that were mentioned are famous Radio personalities -they are not practicing regular medicine. Maybe their MD knowledge helps them with diagnosis, but you aren’t getting a treatment plan based on regular medicine.
“I wasn’t trying to play up the bribing issue. It was in the news, and I have no idea how many doctors were involved and how terrible their actions were.”
Good, but my point was all the unethical Docs only add up to a very small percentage of e/o who practices medicine.
“What I say about trigger happy doctors is based people I know, no great national study. But the large amount of medicated youngsters does point to over-drugging.”
In my mind if these kids are being medicated and they don’t really have ADD or ADHD, is because of the parents. The parents are either too lazy to properly discipline their kids or they don’t know how. So they opt for the easy way out. They come to the practioner and claim their kid has ADHD, but the problem lies – before they will prescribe meds they have to fit the criteria. The parents know this and answer all the questions in the affirmative so they will get their kids on meds. This isn’t the docs’ fault. How should he/she know the parents are lying?
So if it’s true what you say that there are too many kids on drugs, this is because we raised a “Me” generation. The parents are too self-centered to even care about raising their own kids properly. But it could also be that nowadays there is more awareness to these childhood mental illnesses -so more parents are bringing in their child to be tested. In other words -there always was a lot of kids with ADD or ADHD, but noone -not the parents -not the docs knew about it.