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AUGUST 16, 2016

Patient Education: From Whence Should It Come?

Frederick L. Greene, MD, FACS

Is it any wonder why the cost of prescription drugs has escalated over the past several years? All you have to do is watch any television channel for more than 10 minutes and you are bombarded with an array of advertisements for drugs to treat cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome, opioid-induced constipation, psoriasis, anticoagulation and, of course, erectile dysfunction!

Yes, there was a time when the television audience was only barraged