Comments on: Most Physician Training Aided By Pharma Support http://www.pharmalot.com/2010/02/most-physician-training-aided-by-pharma-support/ News, Comment and Conversation Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:52:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: pharmavet http://www.pharmalot.com/2010/02/most-physician-training-aided-by-pharma-support/#comment-469560 pharmavet Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:21:39 +0000 http://www.pharmalot.com/?p=21634#comment-469560 Give med students some credit for independent thinking. When I was in grad school, my roomate was a med student. During his second year he received a Lilly medical bag, a Littmann stethoscope and a Welch Allyn ophthalmoscope free of charge. Given the high cost of medical school, he was grateful for these items. To date he doesn't use either brand of scope and uses Lilly drugs no more than others. Thus, we should avoid generalizartions of how strongly doctors are "influenced" by drug and device companies. Give med students some credit for independent thinking. When I was in grad school, my roomate was a med student. During his second year he received a Lilly medical bag, a Littmann stethoscope and a Welch Allyn ophthalmoscope free of charge. Given the high cost of medical school, he was grateful for these items. To date he doesn’t use either brand of scope and uses Lilly drugs no more than others. Thus, we should avoid generalizartions of how strongly doctors are “influenced” by drug and device companies.

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]]> By: patrons99 http://www.pharmalot.com/2010/02/most-physician-training-aided-by-pharma-support/#comment-469474 patrons99 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:13:49 +0000 http://www.pharmalot.com/?p=21634#comment-469474 If pharma had their way, the Oath of Hippocrates would be completely rewritten to accomodate more "modern" medical thinking. To wit, pharma and insurance companies would be positioned as benevolent, sympathetic, facilitators as it were, never to be questioned or doubted. Frankly, medical students and new doctors in training, need to know the enormous influence that Big Pharma and Big Insurance will have on their practice. If pharma had their way, the Oath of Hippocrates would be completely rewritten to accomodate more “modern” medical thinking. To wit, pharma and insurance companies would be positioned as benevolent, sympathetic, facilitators as it were, never to be questioned or doubted.

Frankly, medical students and new doctors in training, need to know the enormous influence that Big Pharma and Big Insurance will have on their practice.

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