To be health is easy said than done

Dr LEE Jong-wook, Director-General of the World Health Organization, has died. He was 61 years old.

His work about health for us is great. We can find the WHO fighting hard against SARS, bird-flu etc.

However, as the top man of the WHO, how can he died at such age. That means to us that health is something that easily said than done.

I always say that the problem of today is the lack of studies for the way to stay away from illness. Blaming on smoking, fast food etc. will not help. Experts' suggestions are not effective at all. There are lots of examples that someone with so called health lives died suddenly.

To live happily with good health or to live with struggling against illness will be our choice today. Some may believe that the advancement of medication can protect them against all odds. That is to say that they are willing to have a struggling lives instead.

Sometimes, I do wonder why we cannot know our bodies better. No instrument can be better than our brain about what is wrong. Perhaps, we are too busy and our brains are overloaded with other matters that missed those internal signals about our health.

Are your doctor forced by drug salesman to prescribe for certain brand medicine?

From the news of the New York Times, "Doctors Object to Gathering of Drug Data", prescription records have been a tool for drug makers. Fortunately, some doctors are fighting to stop this practice.

Not only manipulating the test and hiding the facts, drug makers are watching over the doctors so that prescription of their medicine must be done. So it was not the doctor's decision alone. How poor we are?

Of course, data has become a moneymaking object. Drug stores may get extra earning by selling these records. Can any regulation or law stop such kind of activity? I believe not. There is no way to stop the selling of something in someone's hand. Even the mobile phone records are sold by services providers, what else cannot?