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Re:My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted by siftrics on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @01:16PM (#35890355)
You're delusional if you think physicians maliciously over-prescribing in the US is not a problem.

People are tremendously impacted, for good or ill, when prescribed pain medications, ADHD medications, anti-depressants, etc. Many of these people are harmed. Many of the doctors who caused them harm simply do not care.

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Re:My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted by hirvi74 on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @08:52PM (#35895830)
No kidding. The slightest issue with a medication, and every doctor I have seen starts foaming at the mouth, "I can prescribe X to help with that."

Then before you know it, you have to take a pill to take a pill. Then down the road, you have to take a pill to take a pill to take a pill.

I'm no medical Calvinist either, but I am not sure that polypharmacy should be the end goal if it can be avoided.

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