Todd Engel lost sight in one eye, kept injecting Ozempic, then lost the other. Now 4,000+ plaintiffs are suing over GLP-1 harms nobody can count.
  • Lyricism6055@lemmy.world
    2 days

    God I hate these articles with practically no information that are 100% written by claude. Feels like a shitty highschool essay. Says the same thing 5 times…

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    2 days

    Bad doctor. This loss of the optic nerves is a known risk of semaglutides. One of the reasons I did reject the offer - I could have gotten ozempic as prescription.

  • dasrael@lemmy.zip
    2 days

    Diabetes has the weird complication of making people blind…

  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    2 days

    There’s a lot of shit docs don’t know - be prepared to go read studies for yourself.

    My cardiologist didn’t “believe” (his own fucking words) a specific med caused a massive uptick in my arrhythmia. When you dig into the study data it was shown to cause arrhythmias in people who never had them before.

    And yet this mother fucker had the hubris to say, unscientifically, "I don’t *believe * that.

    Fuck you.

    Oh, and I’ve been tracking my arrhythmia religiously (heh) for 10+ years. I can show very clear data, date, time, strength, etc.

    • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
      2 days

      I’m so happy my gastroenterologist is a research doctor. If I bring something up he either already knows it is 100 percent down to look it up. All doctors should be like. Willing to research. And believe the research.

    • terranoid@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      2 days

      I’ve had several family members in big pharma, people who research and design drugs, and marketers. I’ve married into family with similar.

      The fucking stories I heard … They all leave it saying it’s the most evil shit. Studies are twisted, data is cherry picked. They take doctors who give talks to other doctors out to $10k dinners and persuade them into thinking some shitty drug is a wonder drug, and fear monger that they’ll get sued if their patient complains about symptom X and they don’t treat it.

      Doctors don’t know better because they’re being lied to and fed bullshit.

      It’s so bad that I asked a family member if they’d be willing to speak up and I heard “people have tried, they get sued and silenced, and big pharma has lawyers specifically for this”. You’re going up against a monster.

      This was after I was told how they literally do avoid potential cures because they make less money, and cost more money to research. They literally discover cures sometimes and don’t fucking follow the research because it’s not financially worth it.

      They make shitty treatments you have to stay on your whole life because that’s what makes them rich. And they lobby to get shit like the recommended blood pressure lowered so they can sell more blood pressure meds.

      Evil in and out.