Are our GP's working blind?

One of the main failure of medicine, in reference to the general practitioner is that the doctor normally works in the dark. Just ask yourself, after the doctor has prescribed the medication for you and you go home and followed the instructions, will you go and tell your doctor whether how effective was the medication? Now, unless you go back to your doctor and tell him that the medication was not effective, he won't know at all. Neither will he know if the prescription was effective. It just boggles the mind how the system had evolved, or how the system has failed. It is no small matter either. Everyday, tens of millions of dollars is wasted on medications and yet we do not have a means to gauge how effective those medications were. And it is not a lack of want of communication devices either. It was just a system, or more appropriately a failed system left down by our forefathers. Nobody ever question about how we should should make it better. And no wonder there is such a thing as super bugs that has become immune to antibiotics!


The system has to be revamped, before more people die from wrongful administration of medication. A system has to be devised so that what goes out has to be effectively tracked and analyzed. Of course a patient has the right to not report on the effectiveness of the medication that he received, but there must be some sort of mandatory legislation that either the doctor goes out to his patient or the patient has to make a report of his prior condition before he can get medication when he visits a doctor again. After all, communication system is so advance now, with just a click on the phone buttons can effectively send out the vital message. But you might be asking why do we need to do it now? Seriously, we should have the method enforced long ago. In terms of cost, we have poured too much money in wasted medication and we can't really afford to pay anymore, and also bearing in mind that the cost of development of new medicines has sky rocketed the last few years. Like we have all these greening campaigns, we should change the way how medicines are given out just so that we can bring down the cost of medicines for the citizens. It is about time that we not only have a health insurance scheme, but we must do an audit of the system, just like we do an electrical audit for our homes, office and public buildings!