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Publication type: Journal Article

Forrest JB.
Faculties of health sciences and the pharmaceutical industry: an effective partnership.
CMAJ 1994 Nov 1; 151:(9):1320-2
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=7954182


Abstract:

Senior members of the Department of Medicine at McMaster University have expressed considerable misgivings about the wisdom of the guidelines that were adopted on the relationship between residents and the pharmaceutical industry. The Postgraduate Education Committee did not adopt similar guidelines as Guyatt stated. The ones it has adopted are less restrictive. The author challenges Guyatt’s claim that he represents the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster. The author does not believe that physicians can be duped by industry representatives as Guyatt suggests. Guyatt’s claims of reprisals and such are irresponsible and he has not provided any evidence to support them. There is a need for reasoned discussion on how to meet new challenges facing academic medicine and the pharmaceutical industry has shown its willingness to engage in such discussions.

Keywords:
Academic Medical Centers Canada Drug Industry* Faculty, Medical* Guidelines Interprofessional Relations* *analysis/Canada/ attitude toward industry/ guidelines, discussion of/ McMaster University/ relationship between physicians in training and industry/ATTITUDES REGARDING PROMOTION: HEALTH PROFESSIONALS/EDUCATING ABOUT PROMOTION: PHYSICIANS IN TRAINING/ETHICAL ISSUES IN PROMOTION: LINKS BETWEEN HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AND INDUSTRY/REGULATION, CODES, GUIDELINES: ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS/REGULATION, CODES, GUIDELINES: CONTACT WITH MEDICAL STUDENTS AND HOSPITAL STAFF

 

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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