"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Cancer patients try to bully drug companies into giving them drugs before they are approved or available.
This particular drug is for colon cancer, and hasn't been shown to be very promising in providing anything like a remission or a cure, yet cancer patients and their relatives are pressing the company to provide them with it before it's FDA approved. They seem to be painting the drug company as a villain, but really, what is a drug company to do? They aren't offering a miracle drug, here. There's no reason for them to succumb to the unrealistic expectations of the terminally ill. posted by Sydney on
4/08/2002 07:08:00 AM
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