One other point about those flowers is that as annuals they will be pulled out and trashed at the end of the season so the next seasonal annual can be planted as infinitum.
My husband is a geriatric medicine doctor. He routinely takes new patients off the majority of the meds other providers have prescribed and just keep refilling without much thought as to whether the med is still necessary. He almost always gets tremendous pushback from the patient and/or caregiver. Patients demanding prescriptions, especially antibiotics, is another issue for many providers, especially with the increase of pharmaceutical advertising on TV in in print media.
That's a good point about the flowers! It sounds like your husband is doing good work and we need more doctors like him! I hadn't even thought about pharma ads and how patients may also be driving demand for drugs. Such a vicious cycle!
There are wedding and death industrial complexes, plus many others, because in the US, capitalism is woven into everything. Never let a crisis go unexploited. We recently had some carpenter ants moving into our house because there were gaps along the lowest level of siding and. Several slices of lemon placed along the ant trails coupled with caulk to close the gaps sent them elsewhere & stopped their invasion. Of course, pest control option involved 10x the cost with a 1 minute phone call, but with only a 3 month warranty, and no strategic solution to plug the gaps that attracted - and would continue to attract
- the carpenter ants. There are often lower cost, less invasive techniques. However, their duration may consume more time and developed countries' residents expect instant results.
One other point about those flowers is that as annuals they will be pulled out and trashed at the end of the season so the next seasonal annual can be planted as infinitum.
My husband is a geriatric medicine doctor. He routinely takes new patients off the majority of the meds other providers have prescribed and just keep refilling without much thought as to whether the med is still necessary. He almost always gets tremendous pushback from the patient and/or caregiver. Patients demanding prescriptions, especially antibiotics, is another issue for many providers, especially with the increase of pharmaceutical advertising on TV in in print media.
That's a good point about the flowers! It sounds like your husband is doing good work and we need more doctors like him! I hadn't even thought about pharma ads and how patients may also be driving demand for drugs. Such a vicious cycle!
There are wedding and death industrial complexes, plus many others, because in the US, capitalism is woven into everything. Never let a crisis go unexploited. We recently had some carpenter ants moving into our house because there were gaps along the lowest level of siding and. Several slices of lemon placed along the ant trails coupled with caulk to close the gaps sent them elsewhere & stopped their invasion. Of course, pest control option involved 10x the cost with a 1 minute phone call, but with only a 3 month warranty, and no strategic solution to plug the gaps that attracted - and would continue to attract
- the carpenter ants. There are often lower cost, less invasive techniques. However, their duration may consume more time and developed countries' residents expect instant results.
I often think about how many common sense solutions like the one you mention we've lost to "technology" and "products."
Capitalism doesn't want to solve problems (like you did with the caulking), it only wants to keep us coming back for more, more, more.