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Efficacy is important as many drugs have significant side effects. If a drug is not going to actually reduce your chance of heart attack or help treat aggressiv
by michaelbuckbee 7y ago
Efficacy is important as many drugs have significant side effects. If a drug is not going to actually reduce your chance of heart attack or help treat aggressive cancer it's likely not worth the trade-off with side effects.
- homonculus1 7y agoNot to mention cost, and the opportunity costs that emerge from it.
- PakG1 7y agoPart of the opportunity cost being that you could have chosen a more effective treatment if the bar had been set higher. Difficult for patients to be able to correctly determine whether a treatment would actually be good for them. They're not in a good place to decide, for the same reason why lawyers should never represent themselves if possible.