SHOCKER: HOW MANY DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS ARE WRITTEN IN THE US EVERY YEAR?

'Medical News Today reports that, in 2011, there was a modest uptick in the number of prescriptions written in the US.

The increase brought the total to: 4.02 billion.

Yes, in 2011, doctors wrote 4.02 billion prescriptions for drugs in America.

That’s an average of roughly 13 prescriptions for each man, woman, and child.

That’s about one new prescription every month for every American.'


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Anecdotal Evidence: The Basis of All Knowledge

TCM and ALL Traditional Medicine is based on Anecdotal Clinical Evidence!

Clinical: Of or relating to the observation and treatment of patients rather than laboratory studies.

'Whenever someone expresses an opinion based on personal experience, especially in the field of medicine—and that opinion varies from the view held by the listener—the usual response nowadays is, “Well, that’s just anecdotal. The science doesn’t agree with you.” 

That statement sounds so convincing. After all, we can and do make mistakes in our observations. We make connections that aren’t there.

But, does that make anecdotal evidence invalid? And are science-based answers necessarily correct? In a word, No.

Doctors effectively and necessarily use anecdotal evidence every day. These bastions of evidence-based medicine actually base most of their practices on anecdotes. Sound crazy? Consider:'

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Science Has Been The Source of Our Retrogress, Not Progress

 

'Science today puts people at the greatest risks for their health and well-being. We are constantly bombarded with false information from supposed scientists including anti-factoids that mercury is good for us, that cell phone radiation prevents brain disorders, non-organic vegetables grown with pesticides contain more vitamins, or that Ritalin boosts learning and that plutonium boosts human health. This is what science is broadcasting to our world on a daily basis. More often than not, science is a grand deception especially throughout conventional medicine..'

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