HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Pharmaceutical Industry, Medicalization, Unnecessary Health Care
13 Sep 2020
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Highly expensive, so people who pay are the people who stands for the outcome. When u do a clinical trial, ur under no obligation to publish results, so if results are unwanted, u bury it. Publications bias, short durations, global market, methodological changes gifts: free pens, lunch, trips bc of the relationship with pharma thinking When a person goes to a physician assume they will act impartially in patient"s best interest assume that medical knowledge is objective we don"t think that the knowledge itself is shaped in a certain direction. Patient has no insight into other interested sources that might influence education prescribing patterns. Who is pushing for a more distant relationship between pharma company and the physicians with their patients why is. No objective test for external validation of psychiatric disorders. Boundaries of normality and disorder more easily manipulated. Profession"s desperation to be like other medical disciplines .
