Prescription Medicine Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/prescription-medicine/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Mon, 28 Dec 2015 18:06:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://mind-at-work.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-open-book-32x32.png Prescription Medicine Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/prescription-medicine/ 32 32 Should You Trust Your Doctor? https://mind-at-work.com/should-you-trust-your-doctor/ Mon, 28 Dec 2015 18:06:33 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=1562 Medicine, like other professions, has some outstanding practitioners, some incompetents, and a large number of mediocre performers. It’s especially hard to assess physicians, however, because their judgments have an air of authority and scientific certainty. Unfortunately, many laypeople are inclined to trust their doctors implicitly, and that can be a mistake, often with serious consequences. [...]

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]]> In Praise of Pharmaphobia https://mind-at-work.com/praise-pharmaphobia/ Wed, 21 May 2014 13:52:12 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=949 I appreciate the value of prescription medicines as much as anyone. When I was ten years old, the then-new wonder drug penicillin saved me from peritonitis. I know, too, that other drugs perform medical miracles today. Yet even so, I am wary of prescription medicines, taking them only when I am convinced they are necessary, [...]

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