Re: General healthchecks unlikely To Benefit Patients

Posted by SLS on October 25, 2012, at 6:48:44

In reply to Re: General healthchecks unlikely To Benefit Patients » jono_in_adelaide, posted by Dinah on October 24, 2012, at 21:20:26

> But try convincing an insurance company of that once austerity medicine becomes the theme of the day.
We are already there in the US. Insurance companies have become the presumptious prescibers of medicines.
It is faulty logic to believe that one chemical entity is equivalent to another, despite their being placed in the same class of medication by the minds of humans. Prozac is not a substitute for Lexapro any more than penicillin is a substitute for Levaquin. If such things were true, we would have only one beta blocker, one calcium channel blocker, one proton pump inhibitor, one NSAID, one antibiotic, etc. The reality seems to be that there is great variability in the physiology of humans and pathogens such that two people will respond differently to, or have different adverse side effects from, the same drug.

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