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by specialist 3186 days ago
I think bad policy leads to bad outcomes. When people are given good information, they make good decisions, on the whole.

As a parent, I was pretty pissed off when I learned that over use of antibiotics harms my child, my society.

As a citizen, I'm pretty pissed off that (one aspect) of the opioid epidemic is because doctors changed pain management protocols, without any followup testing, assessment.

“We started it”: Atul Gawande on doctors’ role in the opioid epidemic

https://www.vox.com/2017/9/8/16270370/atul-gawande-opioid-we...