Re: Too Much Medicare "Care" Again


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Skeptic stated that treating infections is less profitable, not
surgery.
In any case, surgeons make a heck of a lot of money.


I have argued for less stringent regulation of drugs with
more information available. The balance between the benefits
and risks associated with a drug should be based on the
intelligent decision of the patient with the doctor helping
the patient understand the probabilities of all risks and
benefits, including which are not overly serious for that
patient. My balance of these is not that of the FDA.


True, but again that information is not available.


You seem to believe that we can get the answers quickly.

Well, Herman, we have waited 100 + years now for some kind of
evaluation.
Is that not long enough for you to wait? What about 200 more years?

What drugs do we have which have been used for 100+ years?

I was speaking of evaluation of surgical outcomes.

Surgery for cancer, except for very advanced ones, was
not done 100+ years ago. I do not know when things came
in for treating prostate cancer, but except for one which
most would consider undesirable, I doubt if any others are
more than 50 years old, and they keep changing.


Even that is unestablished Herman.


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