Do doctors or nurse practitioners make commission when they give pescriptions?

Seems like all doctors and nurses want to do these days is throw out anxiety pills (which I believe is a low version of heroin) to "help" your problem, instead of actually finding out what the root of the problem is. I have found that in general, the human body needs a few things to cope....God, water, air, necessary vitamins, plenty of minerals, healthy natural foods, ocassional exercise, and peace. What did the cavemen and women do thousands of years when "anxiety pills" or other "special pills" weren't invented. Do they make commission or something?

These answers are good!, and very interesting to find out...especially because I didn't want to believe they actually have financial incentatives. It just breaks my heart to see so many americans addicted to these narcotics with such horrible side effects and addictions. Anything that is addicting or ***** with your brain even worse than before is not good. I could care less if it's from the earth or from manmade- it's not good. Point blank. How do I know? Experience! And it takes a person that had pharmacy drugs in their system to speak that this stuff might be as dangerous for you, as any other street drug. Too bad doctors could care less (notice how you never see them taking any of their pescriptions they give out!)

No, Doctors don't make commission from writing out perscription medications for the patients.

And how do you know they don't take the same medications themselves? Have you asked them? Has some sort of nationwide survey being carried that I missed?

I'm not a believer in the devine so along with the millions of other well meaning atheists in this world, I am proof that the body doesn't need God to survive well. Instead we need shelter and protection, food and drink, love and friendship, status, etc

Well, doctors do have lots of financial incentives to write lots of prescriptions.

For one thing, if they sit around with you for a couple hours to try to convince you to change your lifestyle, they're wasting your time and their time, because you already know what to do, and the insurance company won't pay them much for lifestyle counseling.

On the other hand, they can examine you for five minutes, write a prescription, and bill insurance $200.

After they write enough prescriptions, the pharmaceutical companies notice, and invite them to "professional conferences" in Hawaii. If they write even more prescriptions, the drug companies pay them lots of money to speak at those conferences to convince other doctors to write more prescriptions.

There's not that same kind of money to be made by telling you to quit smoking, drinking and eating junk food.

So, if you were a doctor, would you prefer to write prescriptions and pay off your med school bills and get a new car and a new trophy wife every few years, or would you rather sit around and tell smokers and alcoholics to shape up?

the pill guys come around and give them all sorts of nice freebies like pens and stuff, plus samples....actual therapy takes years and they dont care to spend that time, plus arent trained for it.

Hmm. well let's see genius- what the cavemen and women did MILLIONS, not thousands of years ago when they didn't have anxiety pills was- they died. Before age 32, sorta like Jesus Christ, ya know?

I like how it's all of a sudden PLENTY of minerals in your idea of uneducated medicine.

Doctors and patients are both caught up in the same relentlessly commercialized pharmaceutical system. Even though the physicians are not paid a commission on the medications they prescribe, they are influenced by the big pharmaceuticals to prescribe more pills. Here is how it works.

Pharmaceutical representatives regularly visit the physicians' offices to keep the physicians informed of the newest developments in medications. The companies also provide the physician with free samples of the new drugs. Then the drug companies flood the airways with appealing television commercials promising wonderous results from their pills. Patients subsequently visit their physician with complaints that are indications for the drug advertised on television. If the patient takes his time and spends his money for a doctor's office visit, he expects his doctor to "do something" for him. Conversely, the doctor wants to help his patient feel better and to keep his patient happy; a "happy" patient is a loyal patient, but an unhappy patient will find another physician to give him that medicine he heard about on TV and that he "knows" will make him feel better. Free samples of the medicine make the patient even happier. In the end, the physician feels good about "helping" his patient, and the patient is happy to have his free pills.