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> In recent decades, the majority of new drugs brought to market have been of little real therapeutic benefit. If drug companies are trying to charge ridiculou

• zeveb 11y ago
  > If drug companies are trying to charge ridiculous high prices for drugs with "little therapeutic benefit", wouldn't it be easier just to not buy those drugs than to re-work the patent system? But that would involve physicians making recommendations in the best interests of their patients, and patients making decisions for themselves, and we certainly can't have that! I recall a surgeon friend of mine complaining about the decisions made by the physician overseeing his child's care, and how hard it was to stand by and see the wrong thing done. He's internalised the model of 'doctor knows best' so much that even where his child was concerned he couldn't overcome that conditioning! This has analogies, I think, to the ideas of software users who don't develop or people who rely on the police to protect them.