this is a false statement. Your implication that physicians continue to prescribe medications that they see not to be working, not withstanding your husband's ordeal, is ludicrous. Your husband's symptoms may have been marginal to indicate use of the drug. To the extent that marketing efforts are persuading physicians to use drugs in people who don't really need them, yes , I agree with you, just as many "colds" don't need antibiotics, and "don't work" for those cases. On the other hand, these medications do work for very seriously ill people , and the kind of slander that some of the far-reaching statements of the kind that appear on this thread against "BIG PHARMA" are extremely deleterious in health care.
I’ll readily admit that I operate from a jaded perspective. However, I have yet to read of independent studies which conclude conclusively that these drugs, by and large, are helping people.
Maybe you could cite some.