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Each year prescription drugs kill hundreds of thousands in Europe alone. Doctors should listen to the real experts – patients
YOU are a doctor somewhere in the western world. During surgery hours, a patient complains of a strange reaction to a medicine. It’s like an electric shock, he says, like dropping out of an aircraft – it takes your breath away.
No sooner have you reassured patient X, told him to continue taking the medicine, and made a new appointment, than patient Y is recounting her story. “I took a capsule and I was talking to a friend on…
