SOSA 2503 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pharmaceutical Sales Representative, Essential Medicines, Pharmaceutical Industry
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Research into drug therapies is the most likely to be funded, which is shaped by the profit, the goal is to design products that will be profitable. Sunday, april 17, y the usa on detailing. Joel has done probably more than anyone else on the influence of the drug industry on health care, he argues that 70% of continuing eduction for physicians is funded by the drug industry. The industry provides perks for those attending the conferences. Canadian conference on aids - 1992, research found that those who found that if given azt too early on in hiv treatment they would die sooner and they were not invited to the conference. Generally difficult for physicians to keep up with pharmaceuticals (too much). Dalhousie found that 55% of physicians surveyed have used detailing at least once, reduces inappropriate prescribing by 49%, having experts in pain and addictions medicine work with physicians in prescribing opiates.