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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.
Tens of millions of people worldwide take statins such as Lipitor and Zocor. Many experts view them as something of a panacea for everything from stroke and cancer to arthritis, although they do pose a risk of side effects in some patients, ranging from muscle injury to liver and kidney dysfunction. Survey respondents, recruited via Web solicitations and other advertisements, were in their early 60s on average and mostly from the United States. Some of the solicitations were placed on Web sites where patients had posted complaints, raising the possibility that respondents were more apt to have had side effects than the average patient....

Pill pushing doctors too busy to listen to their patients, unregulated drugs from China and Mexico, and we haven’t even talked about socialized medicine yet. It just keeps getting worse. From politics to medicine, it’s toilet bowl time, IMO.