well I mean diabetes patients have to take metformin and it of course prolongs their life but it also subjects them to potential lactic acidosis, because it's t

well I mean diabetes patients have to take metformin and it of course prolongs their life but it also subjects them to potential lactic acidosis, because it's toxic. Medicine is taking the lesser of two poisons because you literally don't have a choice in the matter. It can be way better than it is but we have such awful perverse incentives and lack of responsibility rampant in the field.