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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (61183)	3/19/2005 12:37:06 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Re: Ray, you misread. Mq, you miswrote. <wink> At least what you wrote in the linked post could have used some Strunk & White style editing. Thanks for clearing up the confusion. :) Re: The FDA and medical guild STOP people getting the treatment they should have. On balance, I'm more in agreement with Dr. Sidney Wolfe of "Worst Pills" who believes that intelligent consumers of prescription medicines would be wise to wait until any drug has a seven year track record so that the side effects of the drug become obvious. He says that every once in a while a breakthrough drug like Rituxin apparently was comes through the pipeline and then clearly people ought to have early access to the drug. But, by and large, Big Pharma has been patenting a bunch of mediocre "me, too" type drugs for the past few years with questionable benefits to the public. That, plus the huge and wasteful advertising budgets are what I object to. Americans are one way, way, way more pills than any healthy society ever ought to be.