This op-ed wants patients to have more autonomy in their medication chocies. “To continue to suggest that patients should be passive recipients of whatever is doled out to them by the NHS, or would become pill-popping morons without the toughest state control, is offensive. Nobody wants to take a breast cancer drug that doesn’t have a good chance of doing them some good. Few would risk the unwanted side-effects of most medicines without good evidence that it might help them. Publish all the data (and I mean all of it) and let people decide. Then let them go to a doctor if they wish to seek further advice on their decision.”
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