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Drugs or lifestyle changes? Are pharmacists pill-happy?

Pharmacy gadfly Dennis Miller is back. The author of two massive criticisms of retail chain pharmacy (Pharmacy Exposed: 1,000 Things That Can Go Deadly Wrong At the Drugstore and Chain Drug Stores Are Dangerous: How Their Reckless Obsession with the Bottom Line Places You at Risk for Serious Harm or Death), he returns with a question for pharmacists everywhere: Have pharmacists uncritically accepted the pill-for-every-ill mentality?

It is my impression that many pharmacists are not particularly interested in the prevention of disease, preferring pharmacological solutions to lifestyle changes. Are pharmacists guilty of encouraging the perception that human health is directly proportional to the per capita consumption of pharmaceuticals?

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