Healthy Skepticism Library item: 4167

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Publication type: Journal Article

Arkinstall WW.
Medical ethics
Annals of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada 1991; 24:161

Abstract:

The pharmaceutical industry should not be blamed for escalating drug costs. There is no objective evidence that promotion adversely affects patient management and it is an insult to doctors to suggest that promotion could adversely affect their prescribing behaviour. Physicians, pharmacists and the pharmaceutical industry must try to understand one another.

Keywords:
*letter to the editor/Canada/ attitude toward industry/ consumer drug prices/ quality of prescribing/ relationship between medical profession and industry/ doctors/ATTITUDES REGARDING PROMOTION: HEALTH PROFESSIONALS/ETHICAL ISSUES IN PROMOTION: LINKS BETWEEN HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AND INDUSTRY/INFLUENCE OF PROMOTION: PRESCRIBING, DRUG USE