...initially treated through self-care and OTC medications. If only a small percentage of selftreatment was shifted to medical practitioners, the patient load...US health care system." US Industrial Outlook 1978, US Department of Commerce, January, 1978, page 131. OTC Labeling Because OTC medicines are designed...

...initially treated through self-care and selftreatment. If only a small percentage of self-treatment was shifted to medical practitioners, the patient load would disrupt the US health care system." In other words, three- fourths of the time that people have an illness, they take care of it themselves,...

...initially treated through self-care and OTC medications. If only a small percentage of selftreatment was shifted to medical practitioners, the patient load would disrupt the US health care system." (US I^iustrlal Outlook 1978. p. 131, US Department of Commerce, lanuary 1978) For the national economy,...

...initially treated through self-care and OTC medications. If only a small percentage of self-treatment was shifted to medical practitioners, the patient load...US health care system." US Industrial Outlook 1978, US Department of Commerce, January, 1978, page 131. OTC Labeling Because OTC medicines are designed...

...initially treated through self-care and OTC medication. If only a small percentage of self-treatment was shifted to medical practitioners, the patient load would disrupt the US health care system. 2 (emphasis added). Total retail sales of OTCs in 1982 were $6.2 billion. This amounts to about $26.43...

...initially treated through self-care and OTC medication. If only a small percentage of self-treatment was shifted to medical practitioners, the patient load would disrupt the US health care system. 1 ^•US Department of Commerce, US Industrial Outlook 1978, at 131 (January, 1978} . -5B. Over-the-Counter...

...initially treated through self-care and OTC medications. If only a small percentage of self-treatment was shifted to medical practitioners, the patient load would disrupt the US health care system.8 In 1980, the economist Simon Rottenberg, of the University of Massachusetts, estimated that...

...75 percent of all illnesses and injuries are initially treated through self-care and OTC medication. If only a small percentage of selftreatment were shifted...patient load would disrupt the US health care system. Yet, despite their importance OTC's represent only 3 cents out of the total health care dollar. Per...