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This is pretty much par for the course for new drugs and goes a long way toward explaining why we're such an overmedicalized society: http://www.nybooks.com/ar
by aaronsw 17y ago
This is pretty much par for the course for new drugs and goes a long way toward explaining why we're such an overmedicalized society:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17244 http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17244
- pragmatic 17y agoAgain, the DOCTOR prescribe the medicine not the patient. Why would the doctor prescribe unneeded/unnecessary medicine? I understand the social pressure etc. However, when I go to a doctor I expect him/her to prescribe something that is necessary not just write a script to get me out of the office. Can much of health care problems be pinned directly on the doctors? I know its unpopular to criticize doctors, but I'm beginning to think that we can only address the health issue by directly confronting the MD's.
- fnid 17y agoAlso consider that doctors get kickbacks from the pharmas for prescribing certain medicines, in addition to lots of perks like swag, vacations, etc piled on them by marketing reps.
- dangoldin 17y agoThe doctor writes the prescription because if he/she doesn't you go to another doctor who will. They don't want to lose your business and are willing to write a prescription to make you happy. If all the doctors agreed to not write unnecessary prescriptions you wouldn't have this problem but that's unlikely to happen since only a few doctors will deviate to get the extra patients.