ChatterBank0 min ago
Is this Right ???
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.yep, doctors are offered huge amounts of promotional material... free pens... trips to conferences... nice holidays... space trips... I think they're allowed to accept pens and paper and stuff but not much else. The pharmaceutical business is big but constantly on a knife-edge - they can spend zillions trialling a drug and then it doesn't get approval; so once a drug is on the market they are desperate for doctors to prescribe it. Hence the generosity
I agree it's common knowledge neti but it still does'nt make it right. Gp's go off for 1-2 weeks at a time taking their families with them. Top hotels etc as jno rightly states but who pays for it? We do. The "Pharma" reps leave free samples of new meds and who do the gp's try them out on? their patients without knowing anything about said samples.. This is how 1,000's of patients receive defective drugs such as Thalidemoide, Seroxat etc.