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In reply to the discussion: Big Pharma Sells Risky Meds We Don’t Need for Disorders It Made Up That We Don’t Have [View all]dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)the other one is OB/GYN, mine is an internist, really a general practitioner.
One emphatic preference of mine is that she does not prescribe the newest and latest drugs for average problems.
So far, it has worked well.
On the plus side, if a drug needs to be changed, as a couple have when the pharmacies jacked the prices uu by 1000%overnight, her office will respond immediately by calling in a substitute.
And she is pretty good diagnostician.
Downside, she is pretty eager to push drugs, and the drug reps are always in the office, waiting to talk to all the docs there.
I always look up the meds when she first prescribes them, and note my concerns, sometimes have to go back in to talk about them.
As for the diuretic/blood sugar thing Google came up with quite a few studies, they were interesting reading.