‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine

Well, of course we could -- the fact we haven't is why it's come to this. 🫠

While i think it sounds risky, it's awesome news for anyone that can't afford proper healthcare. I'm also thinking that given 5-10 years we may see this evolve into something a lot more viable.

Cheap drugs with no quality control is not a good thing. That's exactly why so-called "health supplements" have harmed so many people.

https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2012/09/10-surprising-dangers-of-vitamins-and-supplements/index.htm

Or it will, and it will make pharmaceutical companies offer cheaper prices.

Just like normal testing (well sort of). But from these you will hear only the failures just like from pharma companies you will only hear the hits.

let the doctors and pharmacists do the work, please?

i think this is what everyone wanted here, but the system can't provide it, so they are resorting to this kind of hackery.

Eeh.

While I agree with the sentiment, I think we’re in this situation because of the current medical climate.

• You call an ambulance? You get charged an arm and a leg.

• You take yourself to the hospital, you get charged an arm and a leg.

• You get medical insurance, and you’re somehow even further behind because it’s their priority to find reasons to deny having to give you money back,

The current system does not work. As a consequence, people are attempting, however incompetently, to take their care into their own hands.

Fix why folks are resorting to this, and this should stop being an issue, or at least stop gaining traction.

he's not attacking that part of medicine. he has no quarrel with Doctors etc. it's the exhorbitent amount of money pharmcorp is charging for what can essentially be life saving medicine.