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Nancy Young[_6_]

On 12/6/2013 8:48 AM, wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Dec 2013 08:37:34 -0500, Nancy Young

>> A lot of doctors should be more concerned about the plethora
>> of scary conflicting medications older people seem to be on
>> than if they ate plain chicken for dinner. Just my observation.

> The two that bother me - statins which make so many of my friends feel
> ghastly and taking a small dose of aspirin daily. Studies have shown
> that although that might save some, it's only something like one
> person in 200 but the damage even the small dose of aspirin can do to
> so many seems lost in the mist.

Argh, I'm an aspirin abuser, myself. I'm stopping.

> The best bet is to be very leery of anything big pharma makes a bundle
> on !

I heard something recently that doctors think most people should
be on statins. I mean, who's paying them. Not to be cynical, but
they hand out these serious drugs seemingly without a second thought,
you wonder why.

nancy