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Most likely it’s not working for you. When you are prescribed a medicine and take it, you do so in the hope that you will have a benefit from it. Why else would you take it? But, unfortunately, in far too many cases, that hope is deceptive. Because every day, millions of people take medications that won’t benefit them.
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Schmidt, H.H.H.W. (2022). Don’t Rely on Your Prescription. In: The end of medicine as we know it - and why your health has a future. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95293-8_2
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