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All the drugs we have ever invented and will ever invent are more useful than we can know today. We are always discovering new uses. There are those who give this no thought (to the detriment of patients), those who strive to value this phenomenon, & some who are alive b/c of it!
I recently read a fascinating interview published by @endpts with physician/patient @DavidFajgenbaum, who discovered treatment for his own #castlemandisease with support of @ChanZuckerberg. It was a once novel, now generic transplant drug. endpts.com/sp/lessons-for…
The ability to do more with all we have invented, including many drugs whose mortgages we have paid off & which are now inexpensive generics, is not factored into the way health economists at organizations like @icer_review value drugs. That’s a problem I explored here:
