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Re: Psychiatry Pushes Drugs, Kills Boy
« on: April 24, 2009, 11:00:11 pm »
This seemed relevant.

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MONTPELIER – There's a psychiatrist out there somewhere in Vermont – only a handful of people know this person's identity — who walked away with $112,000 in gifts and payments last year from the pharmaceutical industry.

The payments, usually for speaking engagements or other services, came almost entirely from a single pharmaceutical company, whose identity also is unknown.

There's also a geriatric medical doctor who received more $50,000 in payments last year. A dermatologist got $15,000 in gifts from the industry while another Vermont doctor received nearly $16,000 worth of meals on the industry's dime.

All their identities – along with the dozens and dozens of other Vermont doctors, pediatricians and nurses who accepted payments from the pharmaceutical industry last year totaling $2.9 million – are secret.

From: http://www.timesargus.com/article/20090419/NEWS01/904190370/1002/NEWS01

Just the same thing but I like using different articles:


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The nation's pharmaceutical makers spent more than $2.9 million on Vermont's doctors, hospitals and universities to market their products in the last fiscal year, according to a report issued Wednesday by the state attorney general's office.

That's down slightly from the previous year, but Attorney General William Sorrell says he's not sure if the drug companies are tightening their belts or if they want to avoid public scrutiny for the payments, whose recipients aren't identified.

The report shows 78 companies spent the money in the year ending July 1, 2008. By law, the companies have to report their spending on consulting and speakers' fees, travel expenses, gifts and other payments to or for physicians, hospitals, universities and others authorized to prescribe drugs.

From: http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/04/16/ap6296844.html

Marketing drugs on TV is one thing but getting doctors to market them to their patients because of pay-off and not because they think it's the best option for the patient is a huge violation of trust, and destroys the very important bond between a patient and the doctor and begins to not be about the patients well being and starts to be about how many drugs you can get them to pay for.

Much as the over prescription of drugs for ADD/ADHD in this country which is just another way to get money and avoid actual patient health, because there is no generic treatment for something like depression and the success rate for medicated patients is rather low anyway because the "chemical imbalance" is unique to each person.  I shouldn't go into this any further.

Anyway, that boy is another casualty of the ever growing  corruption in the pharmaceutical/health care industries.  It probably also says something about parenting to allow their child to be prescribed that many medications as possibly a quick fix to their problems.  But then again I'm sure they have some sort of trust in their doctor and believe that to be the best path...but maybe not.  I should stop here.