the disadvantages of unregulated medicine

[Michael Eisenstadt]

"In Mexico, upon recognizing the familiar symptoms, you would go to the 
nearest farmacia and buy the amoxicillin. The agony would be nipped in 
the bud (presuming that agony has buds). The doctor would not get $75, 
which is against all principles of medicine. The pharmacist would not 
lose his license, as he would in the United States." 

Good point.

In the People's Community Clinic where I get my doctoring, 
there are posters in Spanish with longs lists of names of
Mexican unregulated folk remedies which are mostly lead.

The posters explain that if you have been feeding your
bambini any of this stuff, get him/her immediately tested
for lead poisoning.