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To: RnMomof7

The problem is not with doctors who did not monitor the problem, it is with patients who do not tell their doctors about side effects or adverse reactions from a drug.


61 posted on 11/03/2005 8:27:55 AM PST by SoothsayerToo
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To: SoothsayerToo
"The problem is not with doctors who did not monitor the problem, it is with patients who do not tell their doctors about side effects or adverse reactions from a drug."

Perhaps, but when my doctor had me taking a cholesterol-lowering drug, I reported side effects of muscle pain, etc. and he said "that's not from the drug" and wanted me to continue. I stopped taking them on my own, against his wishes, with absolutely no change in my cholesterol levels! A year or two later, patients were dying from these statin drugs. Now they take the side effect reports more seriously.

68 posted on 11/03/2005 8:42:25 AM PST by TommyDale
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