Patients may postpone getting needed effective treatment, because they are instead relying on alternative remedies that haven't been tested, ... The second danger is that they may actually be harmful. -Marcia Angell

 

Patients may postpone getting needed effective treatment, because they are instead relying on alternative remedies that haven't been tested, ... The second danger is that they may actually be harmful.


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Patients may postpone getting needed effective treatment, because they are instead relying on alternative remedies that haven't been tested, ... The second danger is that they may actually be harmful.

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There cannot be two kinds of medicine.

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The more research we have, the better, ... Those treatments that are found to be effective will, believe me, be incorporated in the mainstream. -Marcia Angell
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Since 1994, any herbal remedy sold as a dietary supplement -- no matter what their real purpose -- the FDA has no authority over them.

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[According to some experts, the American Healthcare system is on the brink of failure.] We certainly are in a health care crisis, ... If we had set out to design the worst system that we could imagine, we couldn't have imagined one as bad as we have.

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I think it's scary, ... Doctors and patients have come to believe that prescription drugs are more effective and safer than they probably are. -Marcia Angell
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