Pharmaceutical companies spend huge amounts of money on direct to consumer advertising for their new, expensive brand name products. That spending does not benefit you. It benefits stockholders and executives. The ads promote medications that don’t work as well as proven, inexpensive generic medications that we have decades of experience with. Let’s look at a specific example.
I don't know that it is as flagrant as that. I do know that drug companies sponsor research and speaking engagements that are very well funded. There are ways to reward clinicians who promote and prescribe these medications
This post provides important information. I also worry about Doctor's receiving kickbacks for prescribing certain drugs. Is that a valid concern?
I don't know that it is as flagrant as that. I do know that drug companies sponsor research and speaking engagements that are very well funded. There are ways to reward clinicians who promote and prescribe these medications