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I propose a fourth reason why "nonbeneficial therapies persist" - capture of regulatory health agencies by big pharma. They could do more ( if they do anything at all) to get information out to physicians, healthcare workers and the public about the updated evidence. For some reason they don't 🤔- 💰until the regulatory and med school capture is repaired I don't think much will change.

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Another likely reason Dr's write it is because patients want it. Patients/consumers have been told it works and now consider it "the standard of care." They become disgruntled when an apparently effective treatment is denied them. So, for the physician, it is easier to write it. Side effects are seemingly limited and, thus, so is the downside to prescribing it. As opposed to an unhappy patient, sick with the flu, who believes that their doctor isn't doing anything for them.

This is another deleterious result of the travesty of direct-to-consumer advertising.

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