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Healthy Skepticism Library item: 2497

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Publication type: Journal Article

Bennett J, Collins J.
The relationship between physicians and the biomedical industries: advice from the Royal College of Physicians.
Clin Med 2002 Jul-Aug; 2:(4):320-2
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=12195858


Abstract:

The relationship between a physician and a biomedical firm is often important, and can be useful to both parties. However, there is a danger that the substantial resources available to a biomedical firm might sometimes be used to interfere with a physician’s independent professional judgment. For the reputation and good conduct of the profession and the industry, and for the welfare of patients, it is essential that this does not happen. Total absence of communication would prejudice the undoubted good which collaboration can achieve. This paper sets out what the Royal College of Physicians currently believes are appropriate boundaries: to the acceptance of gifts; to sponsorships and subsidies for meetings; to the conduct of meetings with industry representatives; and other matters. We believe that clearly stated guidance will benefit the biomedical industry and physicians alike.

Keywords:
Biomedical Research Conflict of Interest* Consultants* Drug Industry* Ethics, Medical* Fund Raising Gift Giving Great Britain Humans Interprofessional Relations* Physician's Role* Practice Guidelines *policy statement & guideline United Kingdom physicians relationship between medical profession and industry conflict-of-interest gift giving reciprocal obligation Royal College of Physicians ETHICAL ISSUES IN PROMOTION: GIFT GIVING ETHICAL ISSUES IN PROMOTION: LINKS BETWEEN HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AND INDUSTRY SPONSORSHIP: HEALTH PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

 

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Far too large a section of the treatment of disease is to-day controlled by the big manufacturing pharmacists, who have enslaved us in a plausible pseudo-science...
The blind faith which some men have in medicines illustrates too often the greatest of all human capacities - the capacity for self deception...
Some one will say, Is this all your science has to tell us? Is this the outcome of decades of good clinical work, of patient study of the disease, of anxious trial in such good faith of so many drugs? Give us back the childlike trust of the fathers in antimony and in the lancet rather than this cold nihilism. Not at all! Let us accept the truth, however unpleasant it may be, and with the death rate staring us in the face, let us not be deceived with vain fancies...
we need a stern, iconoclastic spirit which leads, not to nihilism, but to an active skepticism - not the passive skepticism, born of despair, but the active skepticism born of a knowledge that recognizes its limitations and knows full well that only in this attitude of mind can true progress be made.
- William Osler 1909