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To: Red Badger

“side effects are too strong”

That has been my observation with so many modern drugs. Unless the med is supposed to cure a critical medical condition or save a life, the problems caused by side effects can outweigh it’s benefits.


7 posted on 02/25/2022 6:06:54 AM PST by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti Astronomers see white dwarf 'switch on and off' for first time)
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To: antidemoncrat
That has been my observation with so many modern drugs. Unless the med is supposed to cure a critical medical condition or save a life, the problems caused by side effects can outweigh it’s benefits.

That's always been the challenge of pharmaceutical science and the practice of medicine--weighing the risk/benefits for each disease state. Risking death for a drug that helps patients with ED may be considered extreme; risking death for a patient with pancreatic cancer? That's an entirely different risk calculus.

16 posted on 02/25/2022 7:16:21 AM PST by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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