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Post by The Great Aztec Joe on Jul 23, 2010 5:06:37 GMT -8
Doctor Training Aided by Drug Industry Cash By DUFF WILSON More than half of the nation’s medical residency programs to train doctors in internal medicine accepted financial support from the drug industry, even though three-fourths of the programs’ directors said accepting the aid was “not desirable,” a survey found. www.scribd.com/doc/29553195/More-Than-Half-of-Doctors-Training-Programs-Paid-for-by-Drug-CompaniesAt issue are potential conflicts of interest as the residency programs accept drug company support to help train tens of thousands of new doctors at a point in their careers when they are beginning to prescribe drugs, according to the survey report. The article was published Monday in the Web version of The Archives of Internal Medicine.....
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Post by The Great Aztec Joe on Jul 23, 2010 5:12:29 GMT -8
Pet Peeve Time!
Well, actually, this has been a major point of irritation for me for some time.
Our entire Medical Industry as headed by the AMA is corrupt as hell. The AMA is controlled by the Big Pharmacological companies. Almost everybody knows that who has seen how money buys AMA favors.
My wife and I each have prescriptions to five or six different drugs. Though I take them because I am in my mid Sixties, I am not absolutely certain that I need to be taking any of them. Maybe us oldsters on this board (and any young person who is interested) can start comparing notes on diets and medicine and what the doctors are telling us.
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