Quote for Today

"What if you put 250 people in a room and told them they would each pay $1,000 a year for a drug they would have to take every day, that many would get diarrhea and muscle pain, and that 249 would have no benefit? And that they could do just as well by exercising? How many would take that?"

Dr. Jerome R. Hoffman, professor of clinical medicine at the University of California at Los Angeles, asked Business Week when discussing the NNT statistic for pharmaceutical drugs.