Hello, Mira ma'm and Vijay sir,

My views about ethics in medicine development are as follows,

As a resident I have seen my friends from Clinical sites being
offered various gifts and other generous incentives to get
prescriptions from the consultants.

only talking about the residents, Forget about the consultants.... I
have seen they being offered DVD players and tour to Singapore and
believe me this is true...

How can this be called as ethical promotion of medicines.

I have read about the norms that should be followed during drug
promotion, but they are far from reality... May be they should be
made slightly flexible as well (!!!!!!!!) to get nearer to the
reality!!!!!

Stringent control is needed for regulation of such activities but as
previously said in the discussion, WHO WILL BELL THE CAT?

And I believe ethics is something that comes from within, as Mira
ma'm had told us during a discussion.

Those who don't have it are definately influenced by it... I had
read an article in which it was said that in USA during a study 60%
prescriber were writing promoted drugs by their knowledge while 75%
were prescribing it for CONVENIENCE.

well, better said than done, so authorities should wake up in such
issues.

And I hope this is not too far from point of view of medicine
development as it is by this way pharma industry is developing
infrastructure for drug development...