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Not only are these drugs coming from outside the US without being scrutinized, doctors are “clueless” about the side effects. IMO, physicians today are nothing more than pill pushers.
Is Your Doctor in Denial? Survey Finds Physicians Often Dismiss Complaints About Drugs’ Side Effects
By Ishani Ganguli - Special to The Washington Post Tuesday, August 28, 2007; Page HE04
On many online message boards and Internet chat rooms, anxious patients share details about the muscle pain and memory loss they have noticed since they started taking statins to lower their cholesterol. A new study suggests these people may be seeking validation for good reason: Some of their complaints might otherwise be going unheard.
According to a survey of 650 patients published last week in Drug Safety, a peer-reviewed journal, doctors frequently ignored or dismissed patients’ concerns about such side effects. The study suggests this pattern of reaction goes beyond statins to other drugs. When doctors fail to recognize a patient’s symptoms as drug side effects, more than that patient’s care is put at risk. Because the doctor makes no “adverse event report” to the Food and Drug Administration, the regulatory agency may underestimate the problem, and other doctors and patients may assume the drug is safer than it is. Researchers from the University of California at San Diego had been investigating the side effects of statins when they noticed the problem.”Person after person spontaneously [told] us that their doctors told them that symptoms like muscle pain couldn’t have come from the drug. We were surprised at how prevalent that experience was,” said Beatrice Golomb, associate professor of medicine and the study’s lead researcher.
The same government that wants to run our healthcare system can’t protect us from a country (China) with an established record of producing tainted products (toys, meds, etc.).