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MarkF
12th July 2003, 14:05
How many of you are taking Neurontin? It is, right now, the top selling and prescribed drug in the USA, but according to this article/interview, most of the sales are for "Off-label" uses (those not approved by the FDA, but which is legal for any medical doctor to do). It is (Neurontin) outselling Viagra, once touted as a drug for treating certain heart or circulatory problems. The side effect was what had Viagra fast-tracked to the public. But this story is one reason your prescription or even OTC drugs do not work, or are so expensive as to make it unavailable to as many as one-third of the population in the US.

Oh yes, it also makes reference to people who pass themselves off as Medical Doctors, some are simply detail people, and at best, some hold Ph.Ds in completely unrelated fields who do the same. And we all pay for this. If it sounds familiar, yes, I thought of the yahoos who pass themselves off as "Ph.Dees" of budo so it is related somewhat.

Anyway, here is the link:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/937302.asp?vts=071220030535


Mark

Shitoryu Dude
12th July 2003, 16:24
Hey, all you need anymore is a good font and a better laser printer to get that Ph.D. ;)

How many worthless pieces of paper did that diploma mill in California crank out over the years? Hell, I get offers from places like that every week in my SPAM mail. I never knew my "life experience" was worth so many college credits, particularly since I had to attend expensive classes for all the rest of them.

Then, of course, we have doctors in one field giving out advice in another. Nothing like someone with a Ph.D. in physiology to hand out marital advice :rolleyes: Sort of like someone who spent their entire life running a grocery store deciding to call up NASA and lecturing them on orbital mechanics, but that never stopped Dr. Laura from pushing her schtick.

:beer:

Soulend
12th July 2003, 20:07
This is certainly the country to do it. Most of the populace don't seem happy unless they're sticking some pill or another down their throat.



David F. Craik

"Doctors is all swabs"
-Long John Silver

A. M. Jauregui
13th July 2003, 00:44
A neighbor was telling me about how she was prescribed Neurontin for some back pain this morning at the mail boxes. She wisely looked up the drug, found that it was for seizures, called her hmo’s pharmacy for their recommendation, then had her doctor prescribe what the pharmacist recommended.

She still has a bottle full of 400 Neurontin pills...

Don Cunningham
13th July 2003, 15:05
Mark,

Please tell me it's not true. Another case of an American corporation accused of deceiving the public? What's happened to our corporate ethics policies that were all the rage a few years ago?

As a former corporate salaryman, I can't remember all the statements of corporate ethics and behavior that I was required to sign, promising to be a good corporate citizen, to avoid any signs of impropriety, etc. Yet, the CEOs and other board members of most big corporations are still blantantly raping the bottomline to take huge bonuses and stock options just so they can keep up with their peers and "beat the streets" in their end of the year salaries. It doesn't bother them that they are putting their workers out of jobs and destroying the American economy.

So what's the problem with drug companies deceiving doctors to prescribe drugs which may harm the general public? Hasn't the tobacco industry been doing the same thing for years? :(

bruceb
13th July 2003, 16:22
Well .... that only goes to prove I was right in reducing the dosage of neurontin to 300mg once a day instead of 1600mg, four 400mg pills, a day.

Human lab rats?

Yep ... that be us.

I agree, there are doctors ... and there are "doctors."