TheWorx

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...

I just got back from my new cardiologist--not that I need a specialist but, heck, the insurance co-pay is no more for a specialist. I left my old one, an Indian, because he doubled my medication "malpractically." [relax, oh great one, I'm not presently suing). My new doctor is a Jew as I thought it was time to change to a doctor that would not automatically put you into a lesser caste (so long as you were all paid up, of course). Anyway, it turns out I was wrong about anticipating any kind of better treatment from my second doctor. Here's what happened. Looking at my last lab results, he asked me if my cholesterol numbers were being treated with statins. I said I didn't have any faith in the purported benefits of statins. He then asked me smugly if I had gone to medical school because, "no matter how much I thought I knew, I could never know as much as he." That may be true but there's a little known caveat that medical specialists simply ignore and,...