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I want to tell you of a patient that I was called to some years ago.

I was a paramedic for twenty years and this is just one case amidst hundreds where the adverse side effects of drugs have serious consequences.

The patients’ husband had called us because his wife had suddenly begun vomiting large amounts of blood. On questioning the husband, I discovered that she had recently been prescribed some tablets for arthritis, these tables being ibuprofen, an anti-inflammatory.

On looking at our drug information book, I was annoyed to see that the side effects included bleeding and ulceration, and that was apart from headache, dizziness, vertigo, hearing disturbances, blood in the urine, renal failure, liver damage and blood disorder.

This patient had obviously suffered the bleeding from these tablets and I later learned that she was taken off this medicine.

This case prompted me to examine the side effects of other drugs which are given to people the results of which astounded me. Doctors will tell you all drugs have side effects but very often they fail to say what those side effects are and how many there are.

I bet doctors don’t tell a patient who is suffering with depression that the ‘medicine’ seroxat which is widely prescribed for that condition has up to no less than thirty different side effects which also includes suicidal feelings!

How do drugs that have so many side effects (some of which prove fatal) get onto the market? Simple; the pharmaceutical companies get the drugs tested on animals (who have a completely different physical make up to humans) they then depending on the results, let them loose onto the unsuspecting public where the real testing takes place, hopefully there is no way that drugs with such horrendous side effects would ever be used had they showed such effects when tested on animals.

I became a paramedic because I cured for my fellow humans, I also care for all the other creatures that I share this planet with and find it both abhorrent and futile to test substances and drugs on them. It sickens me to hear pharmaceutical companies and the companies who do the testing that they do it out of compassion for the human race, their intent does not lie in having healthy people, simply because there is no profit in that.

If these companies are so effective in relation to illnesses why is it that heart related diseases i.e. – angina, coronary heart attacks have quadrupled over the last few years? Why has asthma, diabetes and all forms of cancer tripled in number? They have no interest in preventative medicine, they should stop conning the public and for the sake of the public they should stop testing on animals.

Richard England, Qualified Paramedic