Posted by JML755 on May 13, 2010 at 09:41:18 from (66.184.63.110):
In Reply to: doctors posted by Spook on May 12, 2010 at 20:16:46:
Kruse said: (quoted from post at 07:40:49 05/13/10) Thanks to the drug manufacturers being allowed to advertise on TV, the patients already know what ails them and what medicines they want.
If a doctor doesn"t prescribe it to them, they will switch to a doctor who will and the original doctor will lose business. That, and the doctors have the medicine companies beating a path to their door.
Drug companies are there to make a profit by selling their product, just like Ford or GM. And in many cases the only ones who can create a sale of their product are doctors (by writing a prescription) so that that is who they have marketed to.
Interesting trend these days: The drug reps used to bring in lunch 1 or 2 days a week to the hospitals and put on presentations about their products. Doctors and nurses could be educated on new drugs, their side effects, their uses, etc basically on their own time (lunch) and get a free piece of pizza or chicken. With all the hoopla about "kickbacks", many hospitals have banned the reps from doing this. So my question is: Why was this bad? It was an effective way of keeping the medical profession aware of new advances in pharmacy. Do they really think a doc will "push" a medication just because he got a free lunch? LOL.
And Kruse, you are right about patients asking about drugs they see advertised. My wife says they get patients all the time asking about a drug and they don't understand when the doctor tries to explain why it isn't the right thing for their particular case.
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