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When doctors don't listen to patients (inspired by MM's thread)
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<blockquote data-quote="ThreeShadows" data-source="post: 550306" data-attributes="member: 6370"><p>MWM, I can't let that kickback comment go unchallenged. I have been married to an MD for decades. Monetary kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies to get docs to prescribe their products are virtually non existent. A tiny minority of ethically challenged physicians have accepted junkets involving golfing or travel paid for by Big Pharma.</p><p></p><p>Nowadays, the most widespread attempt to influence prescribing practice involves a lecture, followed by a meal at the company's expense. A well respected clinician who has studied the relative merits of the class of drugs under discussion is chosen by the company to present the data showing their medicine's comparative advantages. They hope to sway the physicians' prescribing habits by using a believable scientific approach. It is up to the docs present at the lecture to be skeptical and ask tough questions.</p><p></p><p>Drug detail men/women are treated as a joke by physicians and their office staff. My internist won't even allow them into his office. The sales people almost never see the physician and the staff will only take samples of drugs to give to their needier patients. The salesmen hand out small things such as pens imprinted with the company's name. I would hardly call those a bribe.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ThreeShadows, post: 550306, member: 6370"] MWM, I can't let that kickback comment go unchallenged. I have been married to an MD for decades. Monetary kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies to get docs to prescribe their products are virtually non existent. A tiny minority of ethically challenged physicians have accepted junkets involving golfing or travel paid for by Big Pharma. Nowadays, the most widespread attempt to influence prescribing practice involves a lecture, followed by a meal at the company's expense. A well respected clinician who has studied the relative merits of the class of drugs under discussion is chosen by the company to present the data showing their medicine's comparative advantages. They hope to sway the physicians' prescribing habits by using a believable scientific approach. It is up to the docs present at the lecture to be skeptical and ask tough questions. Drug detail men/women are treated as a joke by physicians and their office staff. My internist won't even allow them into his office. The sales people almost never see the physician and the staff will only take samples of drugs to give to their needier patients. The salesmen hand out small things such as pens imprinted with the company's name. I would hardly call those a bribe. [/QUOTE]
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