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Article: ED drugs overprescribed by primary care docs: psychiatrists are said to underuse such drugs, while primary care physicians treat them like aspirin.(erectile dysfunction drugs)
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- Internal Medicine News
- Article date:
- September 1, 2005
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SANTA FE, N.M. -- Psychiatrists underprescribe erectile dysfunction drugs, and primary care physicians prescribe them like aspirin to virtually any man who asks, H. George Nurnberg, M.D., said at a psychiatric symposium sponsored by the University of Arizona.
Men who suffer sexual dysfunction as a side effect of antidepressants should be given phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitors to alleviate the dysfunction and thereby help ensure they continue taking the antidepressants, advised Dr. Nurnberg, director of clinical research programs in the psychiatry department at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Very few psychiatrists are doing so, he said.
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