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Friday, July 01, 2016

The Pill-Popping Economy

http://manonthemargin.com/pill-popping-economy/

An individual with a non-chronic medical issue sees a doctor and the doctor prescribes a pill.  This relieves the symptoms temporarily and the patient feels better.  The patient continues to take the prescribed pill.  Over time the continuous dosage of the medicine causes a side-effect.  The patient mistakenly ascribes the side-effect symptom as another independent medical issue and returns to the doctor.  The doctor prescribes another

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