‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine
‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine
Four Thieves Vinegar Collective has made DIY medicine cheaper and more accessible to the masses.
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Stupid.
People diagnose incorrectly a lot, will probably take incorrect amounts, and if sick will take the medicine incorrectly leading to bacteria and viruses with immunity to more drugs.
Just…let the doctors and pharmacists do the work, please? At least they have some training and understand interactions/classes of medicine.
let the doctors and pharmacists do the work, please?
i think this is what everyone wanted here, but the system can't provide it, so they are resorting to this kind of hackery.
Eeh.
While I agree with the sentiment, I think we’re in this situation because of the current medical climate.
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You call an ambulance? You get charged an arm and a leg.
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You take yourself to the hospital, you get charged an arm and a leg.
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You get medical insurance, and you’re somehow even further behind because it’s their priority to find reasons to deny having to give you money back,
The current system does not work. As a consequence, people are attempting, however incompetently, to take their care into their own hands.
Fix why folks are resorting to this, and this should stop being an issue, or at least stop gaining traction.
Agreed. I know why we’re in the situation. I’m just saying that sometimes it’s still not a good idea to just give anyone autonomy for something as a fix, especially when they do not specialize in it.
Keep in mind that there are lots of people who know exactly what they need, but can't afford it.
The guy giving the presentation used the example of a pill that cures Hep C. They charge you $84,000 for the pills that will cure Hep C, but since there are cheaper meds that manage Hep C, insurance will cover only those.
By the way, making those cure pills with this system costs about $70. For the entire course of the medication.
The problem you're talking about (see a professional to get a proper diagnosis and treatment!) is perfectly valid and wise. But if I try a migraine medication, and it works, but after the trial I have to pay hundreds of dollars a pill?
Yo ho!
Totally agree! The drug companies are fucking scum bag shit lords. Hell, I used to work in preclinical pharma testing for 11 years at a Charles River Labs company so I know what goes into a lot of this.
I just worry about someone then taking something else, or getting prescribed another med, without consulting a professional and there is a nasty interaction and now there’s an ER visit or flat out death. I don’t want people dying because they get complacent or make a mistake that could be avoided.
The solution is really holding pharma to the coals, but I live in reality where it won’t happen. So here we are. 😢
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he's not attacking that part of medicine. he has no quarrel with Doctors etc. it's the exhorbitent amount of money pharmcorp is charging for what can essentially be life saving medicine.