https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/science-and-health/2018/5/15/17355722/opioid-epidemic-doctor-pharma-insys
This article is based around a study that was conducted involving pharmaceutical companies buying doctors expensive dinners. There was found to be a strong correlation between big pharmaceutical companies taking doctors out for expensive dinner dates and those same doctors prescribing more opioids than their counterparts who hadn’t been wined and dined.
What’s your reaction to this? Do you feel that there should be laws in place to prevent this? Or should it be on the hospitals who employ these doctors?
On one side, the concept of wine and dining a potential client is a very common practice in many industries. However, I think it is dangerous/morally wrong when it comes to the purchasing/sale of controlled substances such as opioids. I think it should be both the government and the hospitals responsibilities to make sure their own doctors are not being influenced.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. Wining and dining is something you do to expand your business... but we should not be expanding the business of opioids.
DeleteI also agree with Travis. Something needs to be done.
DeleteAs I said in a previous blog, I think that the Opioid crisis is too big of an issue and should not be in the realm of the private sector.
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