Big Shot State-licensed incompetent MD's
I was recently prescribed Zegerid for acid-reflux. It annoyed me to no end that the MD prescribed a medication that was not on my insurance company's preferred list necessitating an expenditure 2-3 times greater. Serendipity would come to the rescue because that caused me to look it up and I found that A.) Nexium was better and B.) Nexium was cheaper and C.) the reason Zegerid was so much money was that some marketing genius at the company had said, "hey, why not combine some sodium bicarb with omezapoleto and charge an arm and a leg for it." They did it and the idiotic MD's fell for it. I still would like to see a major expose by the New York Times on why MD's fall for the spiel from the drug reps. Somewhere, somehow, a person who goes through that many years of training just doesn't give up common sense and start prescribing stuff just because someone with a vested interest comes knocking. But all this would be water under the bridge if I could just approach...