Maybe they realize that once people take enough responsibility for their
health to go to alternative practitioners, then people will also tend to
question their own fees and competence. They are right in saying that the
pharmaceutical industries work like dope pushers; they give you plenty of
samples at first in the doctor's office, then the doctor tells you you need
to be on this medicine (maybe for years), then suddenly you are paying a
fortune for drugs you are afraid to quit taking.

On 1/12/06, Shirish Bhate <shirishbhate@...> wrote:
>
> Chronological coincidence in two events, i.e. banning of some
> ayurvedic herbal medicines in N.Y. and the Ramdev Baba controvery in
> India lead this author thinking whether there is any link between the
> two?