> It's the old story of whether this is a class effect.
>
> The rep rather forcefully told me that I disagreed with the whole of
> Oxford Health Authority - interesting in that I am aware of a
> cardiologist from Oxford stating just the day before th8at he feltthe
> benefits are a class effect.
>
> Any thoughts? ( I try to avoid them myself - thoughts that is, not
> reps;-)
>
> Jelly Bean
Weve had exactly the same crap over the years with antibiotics for otitis
media ie. the one in seven that actually needs an antibiotic.
Meta-analyses and individual studies show no difference between
antibiotics, cheap or expensive. The same nonesense was repeated over
betablockers in the seventies, each claiming earth shattering differences
in clinical effect because of miniscule pharmacological differences that
no one understood. I do remember the free lunches. I don't remember
reading the proven differences in outcomes since. These symptoms are
classical of _guilt induced prescribing disease_ usually initiated by an
acute attack of Greeks bearing gifts. Just enjoy the free lunch and spit
out the bullshit afterwards.
Bern Bedford
Waterside Health Centre
Beaulieu Rd
Hythe
Hants
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