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Healthy Skepticism Library item: 6617

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Publication type: Journal Article

Prescription for trouble
Ontario Medical Review 1996; 63:(6):66-67


Abstract:

The Ontario College of Pharmacy should not have left it up to individual pharmacists to decide whether or not to sell information about physicians’ prescribing practices. The companies that are buying this information are selling it to drug companies to help them target doctors. The Ontario government should act on this matter.

Keywords:
*news story/Canada/Ontario College of Pharmacists/selling prescribing information/pharmacies and pharmacists/doctors/ETHICAL ISSUES IN PROMOTION: SELLING PRESCRIBING INFORMATION

 

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What these howls of outrage and hurt amount to is that the medical profession is distressed to find its high opinion of itself not shared by writers of [prescription] drug advertising. It would be a great step forward if doctors stopped bemoaning this attack on their professional maturity and began recognizing how thoroughly justified it is.
- Pierre R. Garai (advertising executive) 1963