A Tough Pill to Swallow
“People at risk for a first heart attack are often recommended to take aspirin daily to prevent it. Only a very few will actually see this benefit and there’s no way to know in advance who.” When you consider us as a group, we take an incredible amount of medicine for very little benefit. As the NYT Upshot points out, there’s a statistic for that. (There’s also a business model for that.)