Physician Trainees’ Interactions with the Pharmaceutical Industry

Physician education and the pharmaceutical industry.

I n the current issue of CHEST (see pages 1255 and 1257), two thoughtful leaders of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) frame an issue that confronts most physicians today—the relationship between us, the physicians, and the medical products industry. This relationship connects those who sell medical products (pharmaceutical or technology) and those who prescribe the use of those pr...

Interacting with the Pharmaceutical Industry

It is time to stop hiding our heads in the sand when it comes to interactions with the pharmaceutical industry! This is an issue of reality, not ideology. In an ideal world there would be no industry sponsored research and no potential for tainted research. In an ideal world there would be no need for marketing of new drugs to physicians or to the public and all the savings would be passed on t...

Interactions between the pharmaceutical industry and health professionals:

Physician Relationships with Industry.

John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight HBO show on February 8, 2015 highlighted what is common sense to the average patient: money and gifts from the medical industry bias doctors and can interfere with cost-effective, high-quality care. If you have not seen this 17-minute clip, take a look at it via www.youtube.com/watch?v1⁄4YQZ2UeOTO3I. A patient who perceived such a bias wrote about it in Health Af...

[Ethics and Transparency Committee on the Relationship Physician-Industry (CETREMI); suggestions to doctors in their relations with pharmaceutical industry].

Alberto Lifshitz*, José Halabe, Luis Jasso, Alberto Frati, Carlos Alva, Óscar Arrieta, Rubén Burgos, Carlos Campillo, Miguel Ángel Celis, Manuel de la Llata, Judith Domínguez, Ricardo Islas, Mucio Moreno, Ricardo Plancarte, Alejandro Reyes, Antonio Soda, Emma Verástegui and Julio Sotelo Comité de Ética y Transparencia en la Relación Médico-Industria, Academia Nacional de Medicina de México, Mex...