Posted by Garnet71 on January 13, 2009, at 6:28:26
In reply to Re: Seriously What's Happened To Meds Board???? » Fred23, posted by fayeroe on January 13, 2009, at 3:41:28
> 7. Doctors get most of their "education" via drug salespeople.
>
> 8. Doctors aren't trained in statistics enough to be able to interpret even real studies.
>
> So, there is very little *real* info for doctors or patients to go by for what the drugs actually do.
>
> 7.Where are you getting that information. My ex rarely, if ever, allowed a drug salesman into his office to talk.
>
> 8.Tell that to my ex and a friend of mine who works ER.
>
> 9.I disagree on what doctors know and don't know. The doctors that I know wouldn't prescribe something that they didn't know how it worked.
>
> I feel that making assumptions concerning medical professionals and posting it here isn't exactly fair to the physicians and patients.
>
> Fayeroe------------------
For those of us who suffer from anxiety/depression...SSRIs weren't invented or commonly used when some of my psychiatrists were in medical school. Two of my former psychiatrists appeared to know little about general medicine and also the use of SSRIs--they relied upon what the drug company reps. told them. I would find contradictory information on a drug and ask the pdoc, and they would always repeat what I'd find on the drug co. website.
poster:Garnet71
thread:873680
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20090104/msgs/873711.html