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What does that have to do with this article? THey are totally screwing up here! Approving crap that should not ever be approved. As well as multitudes of mental narcotic drugs that only mask over spiritual problems and help to create more problems! The profit motive is way way too important in healthcare and medicine. Profit is good, but when you have that as the motive in medicine, it ends up like this story reveals.


5 posted on 11/06/2013 6:27:10 AM PST by fabian (" And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo in laughter")
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They are totally screwing up here! Approving crap that should not ever be approved. As well as multitudes of mental narcotic drugs that only mask over spiritual problems and help to create more problems!

FHU

11 posted on 11/06/2013 6:41:34 AM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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The spiritual problem happens when the person never looks further than the medications. Medications are neutral things; they can be used for good or ill. I take the opposite approach: the choice of a medication should be that of the doctor, but with the patient having the right of final refusal. And doctors should have skin in the game, and people should be careful to choose doctors of good repute.


18 posted on 11/06/2013 7:05:43 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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Ah, yes. A world without risk. Wouldn't that be nice?Those of us who choose to live in the real world, however, realize that all medicines come with benefits and risks. The FDA regularly sits on new therapies that could be improving or saving lives. They do so because it is a political organization that does everything it can to cover its ass. As a result, drug discovery is an expensive and time consuming process that stymies innovation. Great. And you think we need more of this?

Creating sophisticated compounds to treat complex diseases is fraught with risk. Moving from a clinical trial involving hundreds/thousands, to a commercialized product that is used by millions, is going to cause some unfortunate side effects.....human physiology being so different and all.

It is what it is. Trying to eliminate this risk will only kill innovation. And I don't know if you're paying attention to the problems we're facing with treating infections, but this isn't a time to be circling the wagons.

21 posted on 11/06/2013 7:50:10 AM PST by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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