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Drugs that can't be commercially monetized can't get through the rigorous and extremely expensive approval process that allows your doctor to write you a script
by wins32767 4y ago
Drugs that can't be commercially monetized can't get through the rigorous and extremely expensive approval process that allows your doctor to write you a script for something you can fill at the pharmacy.
As for other treatments, medicine basically boils down to surgery, drugs, and/or letting your body heal itself. The latter clearly doesn't work and for progressive diseases surgery generally isn't effective, so you're back to drugs.
- ClumsyPilot 4y agoThats not true. Many conditions are well adressed by informing and training those at risk how to best take care of themselves. Current medicide really fails at this. In fact it fails in many arreas where a longterm and consistent influence is required. Getting diagnosis and treatment for vitamin defficiency, hormonal imbalance, stomach microbiome, psycology related issues, and many other conditions simply does not happen unless patient does his own reading and pesters the doctor for treatment.
- wins32767 4y ago> Many conditions are well adressed by informing and training those at risk how to best take care of themselves. I had that bucketed in with letting the body heal itself. I fully agree that there is a big gap between how medicine is delivered and what kind of overall care people need to be maximally healthy. It's what my current company does actually! But with respect to diseases like Alzheimers, supportive care isn't going to cut the mustard in meaningfully impacting disease progression, you need drugs for that. And if you need drugs, the way the current regulatory regime operates, you need to have a shot at turning multiples of a billion in profit post-approval to pay back the development costs of the approved drug and all the drugs that failed to get approved.