Equipping People To Make Sense Of What They Are Told
“I don’t only want to feel better, I want to get better”
Quality of Life - The degree to which a person enjoys the important possibilities
of their life.
Being - Belonging - Becoming
Whether, and how, the person is able to achieve their personal goals, hopes, and
aspirations is a much overlooked and unrecognised situation that any person diagnosed
with a serious condition wrestles with.
The pharmaceutical industry is approaching a “patent cliff” whereby the strong market
position it currently holds is set to decline over the coming few years.
The majority of drugs that were approved for use last year have been researched and
developed not by “bigPharma” but by the smaller pharmaceutical companies.
Drugs are given a clinical score by health professionals who generally will see a
person with a given condition as a number rather than a human being.
They may generate a prescription for a medication against its considered efficacy
as opposed to its proven efficacy.
An often neglected point is whether a particular medication, whose clinical trials
score apparently show improvements, will actually assist in improving a persons “quality
of life”.
Improved clinical trial parameter scores should be set against whether the use of
the medication will add to the persons quality of life. That is for them to actually
be “feeling better”.
There is much more to fending of the consequences of any symptoms of a disease than
undergoing drug therapy alone.
Is it not right that “health/medical” charities should be on the side of the sufferer
working to support them?
Alternatively, should they be the corporate entities, with highly paid CEO’s, that
some of them may appear to of become?
