--is that there are studies--admittedly, many are from countries with socialized medicine, where the profit motive is not as active in suppressing those with deleterious outcomes--that can easily be consulted (as we all do), but most American doctors are highly resistant to both Googling info on what patients tell them AND continuing medical education from sources that are not also pharmaceutical.

I've heard the argument that today's doctors simply do not have the time to research patients complaints, and so rely on the phrama companies for thier drug information. I can empathize with the time crunch, but it's only one more argument for changing our profit driven system--people get hurt, AND it winds up costing everyone more in malpractice and lawyer fees, as a lot of adverse effects COULD be prevented.

But, of course, we've never been big on prevention, either--we prefer to blast through, make a mess, and then clean up the mess when it gets too big to ignore.