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Re: COUNCILFIRE-II Drug makers courting doctors hard   Message List  
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Doria,

This is true my pain Meds has changed Company so Walgreen tells me and the
new Pain Meds I have to take more to get the results as before and the Meds
makes me very thirsty. also the Asthma Meds they clamed the old ones are no
longer sold not feeling well short cut it's hurting people.

Just one thing after another Oh how I feel for or Children's children

Elvira
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From: "Doria" <doria53@...>
To: "Cherokee Health Options" <Cherokee_Health_Options@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 8:33 PM
Subject: COUNCILFIRE-II Drug makers courting doctors hard


> ArcaMax Publishing
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> Drug makers courting doctors hard
> BOSTON (UPI) -- A voluntary plan to curb the U.S. pharmaceutical
> industry's courting of doctors appears to have had little effect.
>
> A study published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine reports
> that 94 percent of doctors have a relationship with drug companies, The
> Washington Post reported.
>
> "We now know that virtually every doctor in the United States has some
> form of relationship with the pharmaceutical industry," said Dr. Eric G.
> Campbell, lead researcher on the study and a faculty member at Harvard
> Medical School. "They are common. A quarter receive honoraria or some form
> of payment for their services, and that was much higher than we expected."
>
> The guidelines approved by the American Medical Association, the
> Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America and other groups call
> for gifts that are modest in cost and primarily for the benefit of
> patients. Meals are supposed to be inexpensive and are not to include
> doctors' spouses.
>
> Several studies have found that the number of contacts between doctors and
> industry sales representatives has increased since 2000.
>
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