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Holy cow! I saw this on CBS this morning, but dismissed it thinking it was about people overdosing on Advil or something silly like that. Instead I stumbled upon what may be the largest bureaucratic failure in recent history
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/24/health/main4628893.shtml
Why is it so hard to coordinate what drugs are and aren't allowed to be purchased? You'd think someone would just step and lay down the law, instead of having some smokescreen of lack of enforcement and confusion over grandfathering to allow dangerous drugs to be sold and paid for by taxpayer money.
And why don't doctors know the drugs they're prescribing aren't FDA approved? Aren't they supposed to know things like what the FDA reports the side effects are?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/24/health/main4628893.shtml
Why is it so hard to coordinate what drugs are and aren't allowed to be purchased? You'd think someone would just step and lay down the law, instead of having some smokescreen of lack of enforcement and confusion over grandfathering to allow dangerous drugs to be sold and paid for by taxpayer money.
And why don't doctors know the drugs they're prescribing aren't FDA approved? Aren't they supposed to know things like what the FDA reports the side effects are?