If physicians disclosed the absolute benefit, absolute risk, and numbers needed to treat, together with their clinical experience and their assessment of a patient's needs and expectations from intervention I would agree.

General practitioners seldom provide this level of disclosure because they are dealing with a large number of drugs and the companies who manufacture them do not make this information easy to find.

Rapid advances in drug therapies have not produced many "breakthrough therapies" and industry involvement in "medical education" is simply marketing.