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No Free Lunch
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Posted 7 months ago Is anyone else a part of this organization? It is a non-profit made up of individuals in the healthcare industry who believe that pharmaceutical companies should not have any influence in clinical practices (i.e. giving providers gifts in return for promoting/prescribing their product). www.nofreelunch.org to learn more. |
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| Posted 7 months ago I'm on board! |
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| Posted 7 months ago Sounds good to me! Are they the ones with the cool videos, too? |
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| Posted 7 months ago As healthcare professionals, we should be concerned about the role pharm companies play in the medical community. It is one thing for healthcare to be socialist, another for it to be capitalist, and another to be dictated by Merck. |
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| Posted 7 months ago We might see something interesting happen if one of the democratic candidates is elected as US president. If we begin pushing towards a universal health care system, what will the relationship between government-sponsored health services and for-profit pharmaceutical manufacturers look like? Which companies will the government endorse and subsidize, and which will it not? |
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| Posted 7 months ago I work for a doctor who often receives visits from pharm reps who bring along lunch, and I have to admit that it is quite nice, and the reps themselves are kind and just doing their job. By the way my favorite pen on my desk happens to have a prescription med labeled on it. Given that I admit that the use of free samples end up costing patients a lot more, and yet they are happy to take the free stuff! So, is it really up to the doctor or the patient to take control of this situation? The people who think it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. --Chinese proverb |
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| Posted 2 months ago Yep, we all love the perks, and while there was free lunch on the table back when I worked in the mental health care field I never complained about stuffing my face with roast beef sandwiches, but there was always that little bit of a thing called a conscience that told me that for every dollar that they spent feeding me, some patient's medication would go up in price, and the pharmacomps would then whine to us and to the government that people were going to Canada, or foreign copy drugs, and how much their research cost so they need to make up for it by charging more. .. .. .. Sorry, you need to make up for it by paying us fewer bribes, that way costs can stay low for patients. .. .. .. Yes I will miss my free pens and tissues, and visits from cheerfull sales people, but the reality is that pharmacomps are already playing havoc with the healthcare system in their tidally locked battle with insurance companies, and patients suffer on both fronts. .. .. .. No I don't belong to the organization yet. .. .. .. Emphasis on 'yet'. |