| On markets and morals-(re-)establishing independent decision making in healthcare. | |
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PMID: 22270799 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Medical practitioners owe much of the significant progress made in the diagnosis and treatment of disease to industrial research. Hence, co-operation between providers of medical services, most notably medical practitioners, and the pharmaceutical industry is in the best interest of patients. Yet, empirical evidence shows how well-directed influence exerted by the pharmaceutical industry impacts physicians' decision-making. Profit-motivated inducement by the pharmaceutical industry may expose patients to considerable risks. Against what many think to be based on overwhelming evidence, Joao Calinas-Correia takes the view that the criticism levelled at the pharmaceutical industry as well as the call for transparency in the relationships between physicians and the industry are exaggerated. In his polemic he praises "Big Pharma" as a success and espouses the view that the undesired consequences of its activities are allegedly inherent in the underlying market environment shaped by politics. Moreover, he believes that the proposals made to control and eliminate such undesired effects will lead to mediocrity. Astonishingly, his polemic reaches out to contest the appropriateness of setting rules at all-even if being set by a democratic process. Calinas-Correia's assertions are based on the wrong premises. They fail to recognize that today individual civil rights and liberties often enough do not have to be defended against encroachments by governmental authorities. Rather, it is incumbent on the state to create rules designed to defend the individual against infringements by overly powerful non-governmental institutions, in our case the medical-industrial complex. Given the power exercised by physicians and the special nature of their role in public health, clear-cut rules have to be enacted and implemented with respect to their relationship to Big Pharma. |
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Stephan Sahm |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2012-1-20 |
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Title: Medicine, health care, and philosophy Volume: - ISSN: 1572-8633 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2012 Jan |
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Created Date: 2012-1-24 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9815900 Medline TA: Med Health Care Philos Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Medical Clinic I, Ketteler Hospital, Lichtenplattenweg 85, 63071, Offenbach, Germany, stephan.sahm@t-online.de. |
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