Comments on: Med Students Get Free Sushi And Filet Mignon

By: knowsnovartisinside

knowsnovartisinside — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:33:50 +0000

Right anniepem. Look at the strory about that senator who hid his bribe $$ in the fridge. He figured it was “cool” to take that bribe so he kept it “cool” in place no one looks ever, like fridge. How moronic can you get. The big pharma and doctors who take the bribe are much more smart. The bribes are always designed to resemble the normal, legal payments or benefits (paid honrarium for talk $5000 instead of usual $1000 and so on) so no one can tell it is not “cool”. The list of corruptive methods is as long as one can immagine and the new methods are invented daily by those highly paid brains at big pharma.
The senator would never been caught if he choose the big pahrma to do what he did for others.
Does this mean we have some lawmakers who have not been exposed? Interesting??

By: anniepema

anniepema — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 00:55:28 +0000

If you have a price Big Pharma will buy you. There are very few Steve Nissens, Anne L. Peters and Ron Pauls in our world today.

By: sawitinaction

sawitinaction — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 19:24:07 +0000

Here is the reality: All the industry regulatory bodies, medical community associations, some medical schools (soon all will have) and the drug companies themselves have appropriate regulations and guidelines to limit drug industry’s influence via “incentives”.These rules also specify what is allowed and that is really very minimal and would not stimulate anyone to do something because they got this “allowed” incentive.
This is where the old proverbial “rules are made to be broken” comes into play. The drug companies have done this for decades but especially since the pharma industry bacame the big pharma with enormous amounts of money to throw around, of course for their benefit to sell, sell and sell more of their drugs.
As for doctors, they are as human as anyone of us,. How long can one say no to all those benefits the big pharma is offering to all, from prescribin doctors to future ones, the students.
Those who apologise on the behalf of big pharma by saying how they all stick with the rules, are either outright lying or do not know what they are talking about. Or are some of those who for instance get paid thousands for their “educatonal” talks or are sent with all expenses paid to far corners of the globe to medical meetings and such.
The examples here are typical. Novartis is one of the biggest spenders and very generous one. How do you think Diovan became the No 1, ARB on the market in spite having no advantages over Avapro, Cozaar, Atacand or any other ARB, for they all are proven to be equally effective at equipotent doses.
The difference was that Novartis knew and knows how to “market” much better by all those extras they do for their potential customers.
This will go on and on for the whole big pharma industry does it and there ain’t anyone who can do anything about it. Or maybe can??