Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
And while we are on the subject of medication you always need to look at risk versus benefit.
If you're getting different prescriptions from different doctors, there has to be some sort of check and balance in there somewhere.
I have had my genome fully sequenced and have learned a great deal about which medications I would respond to and which might or would induce major side effects, along with knowing many medical conditions for which I'm particularly susceptible.
If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects.
The public properly relies upon FDA classification of drugs as nonprescription as a reflection of the agency's judgment regarding the safety and proper use of a drug without a doctor's prescription.
Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.
The doctors, whether based in Brussels or Paris, draw the same conclusions and write the same prescriptions.
There's a certain libertarian right-wing view that there should be no FDA, that people can decide for themselves whether medicines are safe and effective. That's nonsense. Most people don't have the expertise or the resources to mount a proper study to find out whether a treatment is safe or effective.
When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.