dxAce wrote:

John Barnard wrote:

dxAce wrote:

John Barnard wrote:

Brenda Ann wrote:

"John Barnard" wrote in message
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I've seen various reasons as to why the USA has a relatively high (for a
first
world country) infant mortality rate. Some say it's due to less than
adequate
universal health care, some say it's due to the high number of Cesarean
births,
or it may be due to the use of drugs to induce labour and so on. In all
likelihood it's a combination of all those reasons. Part of the problem is
the
"drugs for everything" mentality of Big Pharma. Unfortunately, this leads
to the
"thalidomides" and the "vioxxes" of the world. Lifestyle management (diet,
exercise, etc.) tends to get tossed by the wayside when pills are
available.

I think drugs have much to do with the higher than normal infant mortality
rate in the US.. but not the ones from pharmaceutical companies. I suspect
that it's high drug use among women of child bearing age (along with
smoking, drinking, etc. during pregnancy.)

Certainly smoking, drinking and illicit drugs contribute to the infant mortality
profile. Pain killers, sedatives, anti-depressants, tranquilizers and so forth
are consumed in very large quantities and there is no such thing as a drug
without side effects. Very, very, very few drugs get tested on pregnant women
primarily due to concern with damage to the fetus.

Is it true that the three countries in the world where it's against the law for a
doctor to open a private practice are Cuba, North Korea and CanaDuh?

I heard that on the radio fairly recently.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

Were you listening to Pat Robertson, Rush Limbaugh, Pat Buchanan or the voices in your
head? If so, they were well off the mark if they lumped Canada in with the other 2
countries.

At any rate all three are pretty Socialist.

Run along and try to sharpen those listening skills, Dr. CanaDork.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

D-Ex-Ace Quisling,

Have you learned to do a proper Google search on someone yet? You are a wealth of
disinformation.

JB