Jumat, 27 Januari 2012

Doctor and Patient: Doctor and Patient: Using Symptom Checklists to Sell Drugs

Are symptom checklists more for marketing than for diagnosis?

It began suddenly a little over 10 years ago. With impressive fluency, friends, family members and patients started asking me about random medications, the odd syncopations of those invented, polysyllabic pharmaceutical brand names – Viagra, Lipitor — rolling perfectly off their tongues.
The questions they asked about those drugs did not reflect breaking news or the results of scientific studies. Rather, they were a reflection of sound bites, advertisements and the draw of celebrities who endorsed them, all part of carefully

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