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ChadTower:

Some small practice general practition MDs make more off the drug company reps than off of their practice.  If you have a doctor that gives out a handful of samples of a drug right along with the prescription, that's your doctor.  I've seen the trending info on this at work too and it's a real problem for patients.

mccoy178:
What do you suggest they use to fight MRSA?

ChadTower:

I'm not a medications researcher so I can't give a good answer to that.

What I can speak on is how well the negative effects of some of these drugs are covered up... the short term answer I'd use, given what I know, is effective communication of the side effect risks when writing these prescriptions.  Most doctors won't ever even mention the possibility.  That way people like Peale would have the info they need to make their own decision... or at least have been warned that the nasty side effects they experience have a known cause rather than going through the anxiety of thinking they have another major health problem.

Ed_McCarron:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on October 25, 2007, 10:14:33 am ---What I can speak on is how well the negative effects of some of these drugs are covered up...

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Probably.  But, the positives typically outweigh the negatives.  I was prescribed a FQ antibiotic for an infection that wouldn't clear up.  I told the doc to go scratch - I already have a prolonged QT for some reason.  He prescribed something else that did the job.


--- Quote from: mccoy178 on October 25, 2007, 10:07:14 am ---What do you suggest they use to fight MRSA?

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You mean herbs and positive thinking won't fix this one?

If my choices are

1.  A drug that could possibly have a tiny chance of making me sick
2.  Death

I'll take the liver damage for $1000, Alex.

JackTucky:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on October 25, 2007, 10:14:33 am ---
I'm not a medications researcher so I can't give a good answer to that.

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Since when has that stopped you from answering.


--- Quote from: ChadTower on October 25, 2007, 10:14:33 am ---given what I know,

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Together with a token *might* get you on the subway.

=J

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