When I told the doctor that I had experienced memory problems with a TNF-alpha inhibitor drug (not that one I was currently taking), he said, “I will have to ask the salesman if that is a side effect, a reliable source of information, not something a patient tells me.” It is a well-known side effect that my other doctors knew of and is regularly mentioned by patients at a local hospital’s RA support group meetings. Further I had already called the manufacturer’s support line and they said they knew it could be a side effect for some people and took a drug adverse reaction report. Everyone in American knows that asking a drug salesman to tell you a drug’s side effects is like expecting the used car salesman on the bad side of town to tell you if a car has been in an accident. He does have fancy furniture stamped with brand names of drugs whose sales departments bought the furniture for him.

Submitted Nov. 10, 2013

Kind, caring, and helpful. Wouldn't go to anyone else.

Submitted July 6, 2012