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Because that's what my mother claims and I'm not sure if that's her distorted perspective, since I heard that doctors where I was from were currupt and would get paid money if they prescribe a certain medication, which is likely the reason why there is a huge distrust in medications amongst my family.

My mother keep citing anecdotal evidence, like how one of my relatives got diagsnosed with depression and refused to take medication and "they got over" their depression, and keeps telling me medication is bad.

We came from mainland China, btw.

Is this a thing in the US? Are doctors just as evil/corrupt?

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[–] mugita_sokiovt@discuss.online 2 points 1 week ago

There is a lot of evidence that I couldn't begin to give you that doctors do, in fact, get paid by Big Pharma (Pharmakia = Greek for sourcery) to push things to get as many people sick as possible. As for your relative getting over depression by not taking their witchcraft pills, good on them. They fixed it using other natural ways in order to ensure that this issue gets fixed (probably missing Vitamin B1 from what I could gather, so they got it back).

Not all doctors are evil, but the highest administrators are 100% corrupt, if not downright evil. They're basically witches and warlocks in lab coats.