MIWatch.org calls for real disclosure reform
Phyllis Vine at MIWatch.org, a site that follows news about mental illness, asks whether drug company disclosures about payments made to doctors go far enough and whether anyone actually pays attention to such disclosures.
Vine raises the question of doctors taking part in “educational settings, including grand rounds, courses at professional conferences, or continuing education programs that pharma spends billions of dollars underwriting.”
She addresses the disproportionate number of psychiatrists who represent pharmaceutical companies and dominate the upper bracket of paid speakers. Vine also notes that, while many schools have drafted or are drafting policies about faculty-industry relations, enforcement of those policies is questionable.
Read the whole post on MIWatch.org.
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Wellescent Health Blog on
Fri, 20th Nov 2009 7:48 pm
Unfortunately, even if the information was made more available, little would be done because the whole system is based on a profit motive with individuals paying the costs in a system that does not have real competition to drive down costs nor regulation on how doctors can be paid. All of these uses of patient money are considered part of business and the pharmaceutical companies are simply promoting products like any business would. The physicians and psychiatrists are simply on the payroll
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