One should always ask their doctor this question – and always ask what unpleasant side effects one can expect from the maintenance drugs the doctor wants to prescribe – and whether the side effects are worse than the perceived problem.
One shining example is the medical finding that high cholesterol and too much fat in the diet are bad for you (correlated with heart disease), originally paid for by the sugar industry – when it turns out that large amounts of white sugar in the diet are even more tightly correlated with heart disease, diabetes, obesity, etc.
And yet we are all saddled with expensive cholesterol lowering drugs.
whiteheron over 7 years ago
What a great name for a new drug: “Got what ails you? Treat it with Ignore !” .
gaslightguy over 7 years ago
Under the proposed health care bill, it’s your best option.
Here's Waldo over 7 years ago
Ignore it? And rob the health-care industry of an annual take of 35 trillion? No way!
Zen-of-Zinfandel over 7 years ago
Dr. Phil Goode.
johnec over 7 years ago
One should always ask their doctor this question – and always ask what unpleasant side effects one can expect from the maintenance drugs the doctor wants to prescribe – and whether the side effects are worse than the perceived problem.
One shining example is the medical finding that high cholesterol and too much fat in the diet are bad for you (correlated with heart disease), originally paid for by the sugar industry – when it turns out that large amounts of white sugar in the diet are even more tightly correlated with heart disease, diabetes, obesity, etc.
And yet we are all saddled with expensive cholesterol lowering drugs.
codedaddy over 7 years ago
He’s pregnant?
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member over 7 years ago
This is an ad paid for by the insurance industry.