How are they assured they are really safe?
2007-03-13 19:04:10 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Other - Health
There are people called Pharmacy Reps, and they work for the pharmaceutical companies who make drugs. Reps go around to drugstores, clinics, and hospitals, and give pharmacies samples to give to patients. This practice is perfectly legal.
In clinics and hospitals sometimes the administration tells the doctors to prescribe specific drugs over other ones even if it compromises patient safety. The drug manufacturer then pays the hospital or clinic for doing so. This is illegal and it's called "getting kickbacks."
Doctors now carry little devices that look like Palm Pilots that give them medication information and dosing advice. Doctors are also given basic knowledge in their training for what drugs are prescribed for certain illnesses.
The person who will know the most about medication is actually your pharmacist, not your doctor. The Food and Drug Administration is our only protection to keep us safe. They don't always do the best job, so it's important for patients to research their medication themselves.
2007-03-13 19:20:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No drug is assured, as every drug has a side effect. Drug Reps come in and give them free food, pens, clocks, note paper, free this free that to get them to prescribe the new drug on the market. It takes many years to get a drug on the market so they have to do a hard sell to make all the money
back that they spent making the drug. They promise the dr. almost anything to get them to use there drug over another drug that may do the same thing. They have to make money selling the drug and the place to start is with doctors, then pharmacies.
2007-03-14 02:30:44 · answer #2 · answered by Donna L 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are not assured of this. Drug companies lie as often as not.
They may do clinical trials but often they tailor the data that is released with the drug. For example, perhaps patients on a particular drug require a sedative to sleep or some other side effect. Often as not, that particular bit of info does not make the final data presented to the doctor.
Drug companies also tend to invent new diseases. They have a pill for everything including shyness (now branded "Social Dysfunction Syndrome").
Sadly doctors are so overworked and have so little time with each patient that in many cases they become no more than drug dispensers for the companies.
2007-03-14 02:11:43 · answer #3 · answered by Noor al Haqiqa 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Some sleezebag from the drug companies comes over to convince them.
Many doctors, I'm sorry to say, are looking for the simplest way to get through their day, so they have the name of a pill for the name of most conditions.
2007-03-14 02:07:03 · answer #4 · answered by Joseph C 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it's not assured. it's assumed, seeing as they have lab rats.
2007-03-14 02:11:37 · answer #5 · answered by doofuspie 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋