Questioning Medicine

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2771041#:~:text=Conclusions%20and%20Relevance%20Initiation%20of,effective%20as%20brand%2Dname%20levothyroxine. Comparative Effectiveness of Generic vs Brand-Name Levothyroxine in Achieving Normal Thyrotropin LevelsJAMA Netw Open. 2020;3(9):e2017645. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.17645 Quick history lesson- levothyroxine was cleared and approved for generic use in 2004 – until then Synthroid had enjoyed a huge market share. The only market share. They were it and there is soooo much money when you are the only drug on the market and the most prescribed drug on the market—in 2002 the revenue was estimated at 1 billion dollars. I was alive in 2002 and I can tell you back then 1 billion dollars was a lot of money. But then 2004 there is now competition, a generic drug.! What does the drug company do? Use some of their small fortune to trash the drug, pay of some doctors to write a paper and later in 2004 there was a paper released by The Endocrine S