Top 10 Prescribed Drugs

Patients are always complaining that they take so many prescription drugs. Most drugs people take are not treatment but are preventing disease and early death. That's why they are taken chronically. (and are such a financial boon for the pharmaceutical industry). The top 10 drugs prescribed by Internists in 2006 are:1. Lipitor (a statin for high cholesterol..now used for diabetes too)2.