How many Deaths are too many

Congress and the media are again hounding the FDA. All drugs (medicines) are dangerous. This statement is one that the media and politicians need to learn. One cannot test a medicine in more than a few thousand people at a time, before it is released to the practicing physicains. Once it is released for use and millions are exposed to the medication rare events, a number of the including death, may occur. Some of these are coincidental but the activists want cause and do not undestand the issue of coincidence.. How many adverse events are acceptable? Should millions of people be denied use of a useful drug because one in a million has a serious adverse eevnt. How many sheets of advice must a scienitifically untrained person read before a prescription is written? How many of you read the small print of every document you sign? Not many I bet! Perhaps we need to stop advertising prescription drugs as this pressures physicians to use drugs that might not otherwise be recommended. Then when patients have adverse effects they run to a lawyer rather than accept blame for their own behavior. One more reason for the rapidly increasing cost of the health care system.