Healthy Skepticism Library item: 11865

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Publication type: Journal Article

Biron P, Lévesque P, Plaisance M.
Pharmas-co-dependence exposed: Would it be time to say, 'No thanks'?
Can Fam Physician 2007 Oct; 53:(10):1635 - 1637
http://www.cfp.ca/cgi/content/full/53/10/1635

Abstract:

Family physicians need to understand the lengths to which the pharmaceutical industry goes to influence them and how this hampers their professional independence, reduces the effectiveness of their prescriptions, and impoverishes the public health care system. Hence, the title of this article. Pharmas refers to pharmaceutical companies, co refers to collaboration or cooperation, and dependence refers to our reliance on funding from the pharmaceutical industry. Marketing by the pharmaceutical industry influences our institutions’ scientific, editorial, educational, therapeutic, regulatory, and budgetary priorities; it also influences their relations with the media. The world of pharmaceuticals is in crisis, and our prescription profiles betray our involvement in this crisis…

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