Conflict of interest between pharmaceutical companies and doctors

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We are fortunate to live in a time with drugs that relieve unpleasant, even life-threatening symptoms of physical and mental illness. But using traditional medicine in developed countries are still only two main methods to treat patients with complaints, medications, usually in the form of pills and surgery. When you visit your doctor and have a symptom, you get a pill, one symptom secondly, a pill, once a third symptom pillwith little regard for interactions with other drugs that neutralize the effectiveness or increase the effects of a drug can have on another.

Get a woman in her sixties with high blood pressure, headache, and fatigue and is overweight. It is a pill for blood pressure, cholesterol, another to her, the other to increase their energy and another for his headache, perhaps another to regulate to regulate their weight to be given lower . Five drugs. You can short-term relief, but facespossible long-term effects, including possible life-threatening side effects and complications.

Where and how doctors choose to prescribe medicines? Representatives of pharmaceutical companies, of course. They infest the offices of doctors kickbacks in the form of candy for the office staff "just a minute, the doctor said," to free samples, pens inscribed with lavish gifts including expensive tickets for college and professional sports games, trips and dinnerin luxury restaurants. In fact, a huge 30% of marketing budgets of pharmaceutical companies is used to educate doctors and encourage them to write the requirements for their latest drug banner. Other methods of seduction obvious drug use television and the press media ads to encourage people to ask for a specific drug from their doctor.

It is a clear conflict of interest.

Personally, I have been prescribed Vioxx, PERMEX, Advandia and female hormones when genericand / or cheaper alternatives were / are available. I have 74 years and diabetes type 11 with a family history of heart disease, but the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) has warned one or all of these drugs removed from the market due to the risk of heart attacks and strokes. What was my doctor thinks that when you down on these drugs? Or was his decision, motivated by the propaganda by some drug dealer?

These designers, generic drugs are very expensive for bothMedicare Advantage program (ultimately the taxpayer), my insurance, and me with an expensive co-pay if they paid at all. I live on a fixed income and paying for expensive drugs creates a financial burden for me. I also have life-threatening danger of an early death.

The FDA is a watchdog for the safety of drugs for their alleged role is not alone. You are simply another front for unscrupulous businesses, the benefit of drugs and development of drugs that can save the value of human life.They claim to be insufficient.

Take Advandia as has been prescribed more than 1 million Americans to treat diabetes type 11 In an analysis by Steven Nisson, MD of Cleveland Clinic, and former president of the American College of Cardiology reported in the New England Journal of Medicine 21 May, 2007, suggest that let his analysis of 42 clinical trials that the drug could cause a 43% increase in the risk of heart attack. But doctors continue to prescribe for theirPatients.

The drugs are often tested by drug companies, 25 years, medical student, to pay for guinea pigs, and then approved by the FDA for women aged 65 and a man of 75 years, who prescribed different measures of body , blood pressure and other medical problems.

The drug testers have much to lose by reporting any side effects, that may be excluded from evidence in ongoing or future trials, and then lose the money paid. Thus, althoughThe experience side effects does not relate. Also known as double-blind studies have problems of credibility for the reasons mentioned above. Congress must be more active: The supervisory role of the FDA, regulation of conflict of interest between pharmaceutical companies and physicians to price controls.

This is a serious problem for America and must be treated immediately.