The American psychiatric association refuses " The free lunch " Represent courage and duty

The American psychiatric association refuses " The free lunch " Represent courage and duty
American psychiatric association said a few days ago, in order to avoid initiating the interests conflict, the annual meeting that this association will hold in the future will no longer hold the seminar supported by the drugmaker, also the free diet that no longer accepts enterprise offered pharmacy. This measure is worth pushing away and praising.There is not a free lunch all over the world. Pharmacy enterprises are willing to pay the bill naturally to be the great hair mercy, but is a kind of " curve " Way to sell medicine. U.S.A. pharmacy enterprise, especially pharmacy giant " Curve marketing " The way is multifarious, are so small that for the doctor to give the young gift, invite them to spend holidays, even as big as for the medical meeting " Generous " It is numerous to support etc..As the saying goes: Eat the mouth short, take hands short. Have eaten the others' one " The free lunch " ,Having taken the others' gift, the doctors' waist pole is not so straight naturally. Just as psychiatric CEOs of association James and Schooley in U.S.A. spoke in the statement on March 25, the free diet which enjoys medical enterprises may be known " Influence slightly " Habit that the doctors wrote a prescription that get.U.S.A. pharmacy giant from " Curve marketing " China has tasted bigly " The sweet leader " . The pen will have invested in the past three quarters of 2008 of company to report soon before the American media, U.S.A. pharmacy giant Pfizer and gift came, support over 6 million dollars to the non-commercial sex medicine organization altogether, is used for holding medical meeting and educational propaganda activity about fibrous myalgia and syndrome, by " curve marketing " The way improves the sales volume of relevant medicines.It is reported, the result of this sum of money gets instant result, such as from first quarter of 2007 to fourth quarter of 2008, medicines curing fibrous myalgia and syndrome which the company produces come in the gift " Xin BaiDa " The sales amount rises from 442 million dollars to 721 million dollars.Some medical experts criticize two companies for offering patronage " The motive is impure " . National rheumatism data centre director Frederick and Wolff in U.S.A. thinks, the most pharmacy enterprises' real purpose to offer patronage is to propagate a certain disease, let people buy their medicine.In fact, " curve marketing " Has already become the general methods of global medicine industry's enterprises, a lot of medical associations really supported through enterprises too to promote medical science to be exchanged, but medical association and some experts do propaganda in this course for enterprises unconsciously. In addition, has presented such a phenomenon too, namely rely on the above-mentioned method in the specific bad enterprise, define some normal physiological phenomena as disease in a planned way, or exaggerate the severity of some diseases, so as to cause the public concern, thus promote the sale of products to consumers smoothly and try to gain the interests. The medical expert coming from countries such as Great Britain and American,etc. had pointed out this phenomenon in an article of the magazine in U.S.A. " scientific public library - medical science " in 2006.Pharmacy enterprise and some medical associations " In close association " Also aroused the attention from personages of American political circles. Senators of Republican Party Charles and Grassley had required last year American psychiatric association announced it and financial relation between pharmacy enterprises. He also calls the roll and criticizes famous psychiatric experts of Harvard University Joseph and Biedermann for taking many advantages from pharmacy enterprise.No matter under the pressure of from all walks of life pressure, or professional ethics enable rightly, the psychiatric association of U.S.A. with 38,000 doctor members stands out finally, become the first of U.S.A. to pharmacy enterprises " The free lunch " Say "no " Medical association,this significant. In some occasions, learn it to " free lunch " Say "no " That need is not only the courage, need medical association's there is sober understanding on one's own dutying even more.
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