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If you're like me, you assume that when the doctor hands you a prescription it's going to help you live longer or at least make you feel better. I haven't assumed that for a long time because I have suffered so many backlashes from taking prescription drugs. But I keep trying. When one pill tears up my digestive system or ties my muscles into painful knots, I stubbornly move on to another pill, hoping the next cure won't be worse than the ailment. Now comes Michael D. Lemonick, a medical journalist for Time magazine, claiming there is a strong chance that a given prescription drug won't help most people but it can carry the the risk of side effects for everybody who takes it. If you're lucky, he implies, the only good result of many expensive drugs will be no result at all. Since the stuff in Time is copyrighted I'll try to explain what Lemonick means without getting myself thrown in the hoosegow. He refers to a mysterious figure known as “Number Needed to Treat,”...
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