Less than a week since having had open heart surgery, I am sitting at home trying to jot down on paper a plea to our health care community for better cooperation.

It seems so childish to me to have hospitals, lobbyists and drug companies spending millions of dollars in order to gain control over the public’s money. Let’s spread the bread and work together to make health care work for all.

Thousands of people, including myself, have joined medical studies and signed consent forms giving drug companies and their doctors risk-free permission to use us as guinea pigs so that they can better play their monopoly games with expensive new drugs.

I would warn others that if they are to do a study, they should not lose control and should keep themselves in tune. Make doctors aware that they are working for us. Make sure you and your doctor have good communication.

Remember, the big profits stay with the drug companies and their doctors.

I’m sure that some of those studies are an excellent way of improving an individual’s health, but when a doctor gets too involved with the money-making part of it and a prognosis is not thoroughly studied, a serious crisis could happen.

Let us do away with the politics in the medical field.

Cooperation between organizations must improve.

Joe Voisine, Lewiston

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