Dr. Mercola October 04 2007 1,806 views
It's no secret that some drug companies pay for doctors to attend medical conferences in exotic locales. Others treat them to pricey meals and pass out pens and Post-it notes branded with product names. All told, drug and medical-device makers dole out an estimated $19 billion worth of gifts to physicians every year -- a practice that worries New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram, among others. On Sept. 19 she summoned a task force to consider putting limits on this orgy of gratuities. Although New Jersey wouldn't be the first state to pass laws, any action there would have a huge symbolic impact: The Garden State is home to many of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, including Merck & Co. and Johnson & Johnson.
If we (As people that truly want to change the face of medicine) don’t start being a little more aggressive and confronting about things they will never have to fess up! We have people on both sides of the political isle that talk and talk about the evils of big pharma and never step up to the plate!
Besides owning about half of all the commercial TV spots, and bombarding us hypnotically with their rhetoric every time we watch TV, The giant pharmaceutical companies have paid for many university medical teaching buildings. If you don’t think this buys "Big Pharma" a way to have doctors taught the way "Big Pharma" wants, then you are seriously naive!
So is it not time to wake up the media (Who claims to have a negative view of big pharma) and literally force them to make some serious documentaries about this???? IT CAN BE DONE!
Let’s get forcefully people!!! We have to or pharma will keep going!