terminalshort 12 hours ago

It's a risk reward tradeoff which is fundamentally not an objective decision. Nobody is equipped to make it.

  • Retric 3 hours ago

    You assume there is a benefit to be had. Most drugs fail because they don’t do the thing people want them to do.

    In general prescription drugs have massive downsides and they still got approved.

RobotToaster 13 hours ago

Doctors are supposed to be.

  • Retric 13 hours ago

    They really aren’t, it’s the work of more than one human to keep up with this stuff.

    So you need a government agency or a private group doing the same functions while facing huge lawsuits and thus requiring the same or more data. Granted US doctors could use European etc guidelines, but that’s a different discussion.