British Medical Journal's statin articles to be investigated (about side effects)

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4. It ought to scare people every time a doctor prescribes a drug.

The anecdotal evidence of the effects of statins has been known for a long time, regardless of who acknowledges them. And I do look to the side effects, but more importantly, I google for problems that patients say they have with any prescription drug. It seems we have a grossly inadequate standard of safety for prescription drugs. Doctors often look at your health piecemeal, and prescribe accordingly. We are nothing more than second tier lab rats.
When I was in nursing school, we weren't allowed to talk about anecdotal evidence regarding drugs during pharma classes.
Recently my partner, who is a vet,has been diagnosed with a murmur. The doctor was not going to test or treat it, but told him his episodes of faintness was associated with his HBP, even though he had episodes while sitting with no exertion. We clarified this for the doctor who then said, you have a heart murmur, and is ordering tests. But it wasn't going to happen without insistence. This weekend he had an episode of AFib and the drug he has him on is potentially not a good drug for patients with a murmur.