By Sir Edward E. Pochin (auth.), Dr. J. F. Cavalla (eds.)
The appreciation of danger just like the information of attractiveness lies a great deal within the eyes of the beholder. It contains a cost judgement and will by no means be absolute. but mockingly, sleek society is difficult ever better levels of security within the medicinal drugs it takes, to the level that not anything wanting the whole absence of possibility should be tolerated. for the reason that 1960, and normally end result of the thalidomide tragedy, governmental rules of checking out and use of recent medicinal drugs has grown apace during the global. It has derived impetus not just from the comprehensible want of the general public to hunt security, but in addition from the nervousness of bureaucrats and politicians to not be noticeable to have made error. either those matters were infected by means of the popularity of the media that every one medicinal drugs make information and horror medicines make the easiest information of all. ahead of this time the doctor and his remedies loved a comparatively supportive public. It used to be real that quacks existed and have been well-known as such yet, primarily, humans desired to take drugs and anticipated them to do them good.
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Collier (St George's Hospital Medical School): John Maddox's suggestion of sharing responsibility is important and realistic. To share responsibility requires information, and my worry is that the information content of the prescriber is inadequate for such a proposal. If we consider important drugs, we now know the risks of many of those drugs, and that those risks are increased by poor prescribing. I should like to think that 'the public' includes the GP, who is a part of the public in this respect.
Historically, the origins ofthe environmental movement of the 1960s lie, in my opinion, in people's recognition that a sufficiently prosperous society could enjoy the benefits of industrial development without suffering the accompanying disbenefits. You could hope to build steel plants and paper mills without putting at risk the clean air and clean water that people commonly regarded as their birthright. At bottom, in other words, the environmental movement was born of a recognition that you could have your cake and also eat it provided that you were prepared to pay the price.
Everyone of the participants would agree that a pharmacologically active compound, a good pharmacologically active compound, has effects and sideeffects. Perhaps the sooner we get that across to the public, the better. How we do it I do not know. I do not know that I agree with Mr Maddox's suggestions. Time with the GP is one of the great problems and trying to explain to the patient would be very difficult. One way might be to take a lead from the cigarette manufacturers. I bought a packet of their tranquillizers last night which said, 'Cigarettes can seriously damage your health'.