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RE: Do Gifts From Pharmaceutical Companies Really Affect The Way Doctors Prescribe Drugs?
My father is a doctor. God I miss all the swag and trips on 5 star hotels he used to take me when I was a child. And I loved all the freebies; food, pencils, mags, notepads, watches, all kinds of shit. We even got a expensive laptop in 2000 XD
Unfortunately the good swag has been seriously cut down in my country. Now it's only cheap pens and stupid shit. And no free trips for family members, they now have to pay :(
Sounds like you have first hand experience why this is a problem. Sure the swag is nice, but it certainly would have biassed your dad for one drug or another. This doesn't mean those drugs were necessarily bad, but perhaps not the most affordable for his patients.
"but perhaps not the most affordable for his patients."
well unlike the US, we have free healthcare for almost everyone, and true there had been plenty of abuse in the system. I guess the ones who ended up paying the bill are the taxpayers of germany and other E.U countries XD
That doesn't fix or change anything... :(