>>>This case was actually simpler - he has no insurance, and lasix did him far better than whatever else he was taking, simply because there were no side effects (and thus no need for other pills he was taking against those). And yet the doctors' office took care that he doesn't get it.
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>Lasix had no side effects? Compared to what, I wonder. Curious as to what disease your ? otherwise healthy? brother-in-law is having treated.

The story is too long, this is just the most interesting episode.

But that's in the US. Here, curiously enough, it's becoming the same, even though there's several orders of magnitude less money involved. My mother-in-law got prescribed something by a neurologist to fend off the disorientation and vertigo. Among the side effects, the small print on the drug mentions possible disorientation and vertigo. The doctor is visiting this (unregistered, private) nursing home as his side gig, out of the system and most probably off the books. The drug's cost wasn't trivial, somewhere around 50€/month. And yeah, my wife (the retired MD) googled it out, and it's a new thing, approved just a couple of years before.