Them out of educating consumers they are unable to be objective and there are a lot of marketing messages in the education that they do with doctors through continuing medical education which is required for most physicians or through disease awareness initiatives aimed at other consumers or Health Care Providers either consumers or Health Care Providers. There is a lot of distortion that happens because of the pharmaceutical industry and we need to make sure that the information that Health Care Providers and consumers have is accurate. We will never get that from pharmaceutical companies. Brian why not . Dr. Fughberman they are legally obligated to represent interests of their shareholders and as much or as they try to pretend that they are in a partnership with physicians and Health Care Providers and they are on the same side in terms of helping patients, they are really quite different. Pharmaceutical companies are legally required to represent the best interests of shareholders a
To doctors or patrons, what would you do patients, what would you do. Dr. Fughberman i would get them out of educating consumers, they are unable to be objective and there are a lot of marketing messages in the education that they do with doctors through continuing medical education which is required for most physicians or through disease awareness initiatives aimed at other consumers or Health Care Providers either consumers or Health Care Providers. There is a lot of distortion of medical discord that happens because of the pharmaceutical industry and we need to make sure that the information that Health Care Providers and consumers have is accurate. We will never get that from pharmaceutical companies. Brian why not . Dr. Fughberman they are legally obligated to represent interests of their shareholders and as much or as they try to pretend that they are in a partnership with physicians and Health Care Providers and they are on the same side in terms of helping patients, they are re
Pretend that they are in a partnership with physicians and Health Care Providers and they are on the same side in terms of helping patients, they are really quite different. Pharmaceutical companies are legally required to represent the best interests of shareholders and physicians are legally required to represent patients. Occasionally interests align but often they do not. Brian what is one thing that happens between the pharmaceutical companies and doctors that would give us an example of what you are talking about . Dr. Fughberman for example the promotion of a drug starts 710 years before a drug comes on the market. While it is illegal and marketed drug before it has been approved by the fda, it is not illegal to market the disease. Drug companies have invented diseases or exaggerated importance of certain conditions or of a particular mechanism of a drug. And then blanketed medical journals and medical meetings and other venues with these messages that are meant to prepare the m