Re: Which is the safest diuretic?

From: Jason (jason_at_nospam.com)
Date: 03/10/05 

Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:04:14 -0800

In article <42303d9e$0$88041$16897aa@news.airnews.net>, "Jeff"
<kidsdoc2000@hotmail.com> wrote:

> "Jason" <jason@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:jason-0903052257520001@pm4-broad-48.snlo.dialup.fix.net...
> > Jeff,
> > It takes about three weeks to get a doctor's appointment.
>
> Gee, I hope you have one.
>
> > Some famous
> > person once said something like this--"You are your own best doctor"
> > a teacher added--"since you know yourself better than anyone else".
> > I have a book called "The Pill Book" which makes it easy to research
> > various drugs". I like other people's help from time to time.
>
> The Pill Book may be good to help you understand the drugs that you are
> prescribed, but it is not a guide to prescribing drugs. For that you need to
> have courses in laboratory medicine (which interpretation of laboratory
> tests), physical examination, physiology, pathology, anatomy, cardiology,
> nephrology, pharmacology, etc.
>
> Who has the experience for this? Your doctor.
>
> And to get said pills, where do you go? Your doctor. You can't get
> prescription drugs without seeing your doctor.
>
> Avoid salt and see your doctor.
>
> We can't diagnose you over the net.
>
> Jeff

Jeff,
I understand. I have read reports indicating that doctors get medical
journals that have full page advertisements for various prescription
drugs. People are influenced by ads--otherwise companies would not spend
millions of dollars per year advertising products. I suspect that doctors
also influenced by those ads. 

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