Doctors Often Write Off Patient Side Effect Concerns

When patients feel they might be having an adverse drug effect, doctors will very often dismiss their concerns, a new study shows.
In a survey of 650 patients, taking cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins, who reported having adverse drug reactions, many said their physicians denied that the drug could be connected to their symptoms, Dr. Beatrice A. Golomb of the University of California at San Diego and her colleagues found.
Reuters August 28, 2007
Washington Post August 28, 2007