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RE: Do Gifts From Pharmaceutical Companies Really Affect The Way Doctors Prescribe Drugs?

in #steemstem7 years ago

This is a quite interesting topic and I strongly think it does. 5 years ago Turkey was having a lot of problem about this topic. They were sending holiday tickets all 5 stars hotels , Huge plasma screen Tv's and if you are slighlty famous doctor with his/her own clinic then even bigger stuff was coming. However thankfully goverment regulated a quite strict law inorder to prevent this bribery it is hard to see things like that in Turkey anymore but I still think companies doing it instead of doing more obvious way they turned this system in to real bribery but as I said I never seen a doctor got punished for doing this.

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Yep, huge conflict of interest issue. Thanks for the comment. Hopefully eventually people around the world say enough is enough. It sounds like some governments are, but not all and others not enough.

Well it was quite intriguing topic thanks for mentioning this some people may forget about this because they aren't in pharmaceutical sector however I'm pretty sure huge percentage of people know about this but they don't care much I'm quite shocked by the 18 percent shift on the decision of the doctors when we think about the huge economy created by drug companies 18 percent makes a quite big difference.

when we think about the huge economy created by drug companies 18 percent makes a quite big difference.

Yep, it's definitely huge.