treefish

I would be curious if anyone knows his cancer family history. The guidelines I've seen recommend screening at age 50 or 10 years before a the age at which a first degree relative was diagnosed (whichever is sooner).

Doctors who were prescribing medicine at the time that OxyContin hit the market were not in medical school, they had graduated already. If pharma lies about safety there is no way for a doctor to know unless they conduct their own study, which would require lots of extra time and massive funding. Pharmacists didn't know that the safety data was fudged either. Everyone got their oxycontin from a pharmacist after a doctor prescribed it, so having a pharmacist be the only one allowed to prescribe it wouldn't have changed anything.

To be fair, most post-docs dont have an average debt of 200k. When I looked at STEM grad school they paid you if you were willing to do some teaching/grading. I dont believe post docs average 80+ hour weeks either.