Gift Giving in the Medical Industry

Recent article of St. Paul Pioneer Press, Minnesota (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505245_162-57348681/drug-company-money-on-rise-for-2-minn-clinics/) Mayo Clinic, After announcing that it received 650,000 dollars in 2010, it was subject to public opinion poll. Giving gifts is always a difficult problem in the medical industry. Various articles on this topic are written to explore its advantages and disadvantages. However, in the position of medical institutions and health care providers, there was no tragic war between morals and the effects of commercialism.

In 1990, the American Medical Association adopted a gift guide for industrial physicians, and in 1992 released the latest version providing detailed information and instructions on the original guide. Since the early 1990s, there has been a strong interest in the impact of industrial gifts on medical practice. In this research, we will explore how patients and doctors are thinking about gifts in the industry. About 50% of the investigated patients were unaware of this practice and 24% of unknown patients said that this knowledge changed their medical perception. The data shows that the view on their medicine is likely to be a reality

The financial interest conflict (COI), also known as a doctor's gift, is an accepted practice. According to the 2007 survey of the New England Journal of Medicine, 94% of physicians are related to the pharmaceutical industry. This gravy train can only move in one direction. From a leading pharmaceutical company to a doctor's wallet. Of course, a major pharmaceutical company can pay directly to a doctor and can do a lot of things. It is no doubt that medical students exposed to medicine will become more aggressive against them. Access to medical students is restricted in many medical schools, but refuses to get off the bus. There is a simple relationship between the attention degree of the physician (more papers are published - in most cases academic doctors and professors) and the amount obtained from the big pharmaceutical company. Mo = Mo money highlighted. What do you think people like to teach human rights at famous institutions like university?

Doctors do not think so. They do not even know that they are affected. According to a survey by medical staff, 61% of medical staff think that gifts will not affect the prescription pattern. Medical students have no problem if they judge that the gift is a problem of other occupations, but they are not doctors. Corruption and corruption - This is a problem for others. Studies by Orlowski and Wateska will track drug usage by 20 physicians at drug-organized medical education seminars. Since then, the use of both medicines has more than tripled, but all but one doctor denied that the seminar affected them in some way. 95% of doctors just want "dude, free lunch"