Posted by Anyuser on February 28, 2002, at 17:27:32
In reply to Antidepressant drug trials, posted by Anyuser on February 28, 2002, at 8:01:20
I don't approach this matter with any prejudice against the drug companies. I look forward to the day they invent a magic happiness pill, for which they will deserve obscene profits.
My problem has more to do with prejudices about obtaining useful information to make some decisions about my mental health. I think I have imagined a hierarchy of expertise: at the top of hierarchy are the research scientists that concoct these drugs, and at the bottom would be a family physician that writes prescriptions for Prozac. I have had a prejudice, not against the drug scientists, but against that family doctor. I am coming to the realization, duh, that my prejudice was mistaken. A family doctor that has been treating patients with Prozac for a decade knows more, has more information, about Prozac than the researchers that invented it or the FDA scientists that approved it.
The answers to my questions are not to be found in Medline searches.
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