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Says Pharmacist Jere Goyan of the University of California at San Francisco and former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration: "It used to be that making the diagnosis was the difficult part, and the idea was that any damn fool could prescribe, especially since there were so few drugs that worked. Now there are so many, and all have some sort of bad effects too." Pharmacists get three to four years of training, almost exclusively about drugs. Many of them know more than doctors do about potentially dangerous drug interactions. Medical schools usually give only one formal course...
...Government in the meantime intends to continue efforts to reduce nitrite use and is asking the National Academy of Sciences to evaluate all existing data about the chemical. But speaking with reporters, FDA Commissioner Jere Goyan showed a studied calm about the chemical. Until we know more about the additive, he said, "we should eat a well-balanced diet and not be concerned about moderate amounts of cured meats." As for himself, he admitted: "I had a hot dog for lunch...
...binding, and doctors will still be able to administer tranquilizers as they see fit. Indeed, some critics regard the action as little more than a sugar-coated placebo that will have little effect. As a consequence, they are calling for even stronger measures to cope with what FDA Commissioner Jere Goyan, a pharmacist, calls "our overmedicated society." One reform proposed by Dr. Sidney Wolfe, head of Ralph Nader's Health Research Group: require doctors to write a new prescription every time a patient wants to buy tranquilizers. Under the FDA's current rules, tranquilizer prescriptions can be refilled...
Partly in response to the furor, the FDA now plans to require inserts for only ten drugs, one of them probably the popular tranquilizer Valium. FDA Commissioner Jere Goyan, a pharmacist, supports this truth-in-prescription experiment, but acknowledges that PPIs may have surprising side effects. He cites the case of a friend's wife who underwent a hysterectomy, or removal of the uterus. Later she was given a prescription for estrogen, for which the FDA has required PPIs since 1977. After reading the leaflet, she immediately wanted to stop taking the hormone. Her reason: she was afraid...