Medical Practice a la Mode

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Abstract
That I might be a pawn of fashion first came home to me about 10 years ago when a number of new nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs were being introduced. In October 1978, sulindac (Clinoril) was introduced to the market and to the public in a press conference that resulted in extensive media coverage.Within a few hours of the first press reports, I was buried by an avalanche of urgent telephone requests for the new wonder drug. With ill humor, I complied. No credit to me that sulindac turned out to be a useful drug; I was merely kneeling to fashion. . . .