The doctor wrote my Zetia prescription so fast and hard that I left his office convinced he was getting some sort of incentive.
Well, your doctor is practicing defensive medicine by trying to meet the recommended guidelines for cholesterol, and they think of Zetia as a “safe” agent to add to a statin, since it is not systemically absorbed. These aggressive guidelines are driving the doctors to use so much statin therapy. They are afraid of being sued after a heart attack, if they did not meet the guidelines.