This has to be the most ridiculous health care quote of the year
Looking back on my notes for 2012, I found what has to be the most ridiculous health care quote of the year.
I have to share this one with you one more time…
Last May, I told you about a new FDA report. The agency “suggested caution” in using Boniva, Fosamax, and other osteoporosis drugs for more than five years.
These drugs may increase risk of bone fracture and esophageal cancer.
A New York Times piece noted this FDA guidance…
“The agency did say that women at low risk for fracture or with a bone density near normal may be good candidates to stop therapy after three to five years.”
At first pass, the quote seems reasonable. Then it sinks in… The idea that a woman with “near normal” bone density requires drug therapy is preposterous!
That’s modern medicine in a nutshell. Selling potentially harmful drugs to patients who don’t need them.
Sources:
“New Cautions About Long-Term Use of Bone Drugs” Tara Parker-Pope, New York Times, 5/9/12, well.blogs.nytimes.com
