If you, like many of us, have encountered a doctor who insists that Propecia is 100 percent safe and effective for (all together now) its intended use, you can always check to see if he or she is on the take.
Pro Publica has an excellent database of just such doctors:
propublica.org/series/dollars-for-docs
And if anyone does turn up a shady doc, be sure to post the Pro Publica link here for all to see (and be aware of).
i fucking love this thread
i know of a dermatologist as well as a urologist i told about my problems and they just laughed at me, literally, and said no way … they each prescribe finasteride regularly by the way
I could not agree more, Lennon.
And if you want to have some REAL fun, search just the doctors on the take from Merck.
Like A. Mark Fendrick of Ann Arbor, Mich., who’s in to date for $40,000. Among the fabulous pharmaceutical products he has stumped for are (you guessed it) Propecia:
projects.propublica.org/docdolla … s/10913444
Ditto Aaron Lee Ellenbogen of Bingham Farms, Mich., who’s in for more than $48,000:
projects.propublica.org/docdolla … s/10911348
And that’s just the A’s.
In the first three quarters of 2012 alone, Merck paid out more than $167 million to such doctors:
projects.propublica.org/docdolla … nies/merck
You read that right: One hundred and sixty-seven million.
Dollars.
My GP tried to push antidepressants on me everytime I went to see him even though I told him I didnt have depression. Hes a very arrogant man it wouldnt surprise me if hes on the take.
Funny how doctors dont want to know you when you tell them you believe you have been damaged by a pharmaceutical drug.
100% agreed, Mark.
In 2001, about 4 months after starting on Propecia, I went to a top urologist for a second opinion as to why Propecia was giving me horrible groin pain – testalgia, as it’s clinically known.
The urologist wrote a letter back to my GP (who’d referred me) saying that he had never heard of Propecia causing such a side effect, and that it must be purely coincidental. He also noted that I wanted assurance of such in writing, though the urologist never did put anything in writing to me.
I only found about that the letter to my GP in 2011, when gathering all my medical records on the nightmare that is Propecia.
Anyway, I saw on the Pro Publica database that the aforementioned urologist is one of the biggest prescribers of finasteride in my home state.
Infuriating.