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Aug 13, 2014, 12:48 PM
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Loved this comment from Richard:
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As a psychiatrist in practice for 35 years, I am not impressed by this column whose first author is a second year medical student, with co-author an assistant professor of psychiatry. This column is exactly the kind of verbiage which the big drug companies love to see in print. It is certainly true that schizophrenia carries a stigma, and that well-insured patients are more likely to receive more expensive, brand-name medications (which earn big bucks for those drug companies). However, these new, expensive ones cause major side effects which are no fun: diabetes, heart disease, and strokes. When one discusses with patients whether they'd rather risk tardive dyskinesia or those potentially life-threatening metabolic diseases, it's a close call for many. In short, everything should depend on patient choice, NOT on the marketing efforts of multi-billion-dollar drug companies.
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