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Thanks @scalextrix. It was only the second day of a one week course. I felt that the doctors were a little too quick to prescribe it. Maybe they don't know better given the sales and marketing push.

If sales and marketing are causing doctors to forget their hippocratic oath, then something is seriously broken in the US heathcare system. However I dont think this is unique to the US and here in the UK I believe doctors over prescribe painkillers, anti-depressants and anti-biotics too; I think people have an expectation doctors will 'cure' them.

That's true. At the start they could probably be forgiven because they didn't know any better. But now that it's all over the news there can be no excuse.

True here in Asia as well.