Posted by Ritch on July 20, 2002, at 12:31:12
In reply to rules, posted by katekite on July 20, 2002, at 11:36:39
> 3. If in doubt, reach hand into drawer or cabinet and pull out shiny starter pack, look at it to see what it is, then extoll its virtues.
Kate,This is a little away from the thread, but it also *is* frustrating if this is true. Anyhow, I had a pdoc appointment a few months back and I remembered something that was said when I asked about a certain med and the response (kind of under the breath) was "oh, that's a different company..." I am beginning to really wonder.. is my pdoc getting *paid* under the table for writing prescriptions for certain companies??? The only reason I just thought of that now was a story I read in the Kansas City Star a few weeks back. It had to do with a notorious case where a pharmacist was diluting an expensive cancer drug so he could make more profits from it. Well, the weird part is that the pharmaceutical company that makes the cancer drug *knew* how many prescriptions were being written for the med and also by *which doctors*. Anyhow, the drug manufacturer is facing some kind of possible trouble because they had the information (doctor's scripts) which would have shown the pharmacist wasn't ordering enough of the drug to match up with the quantity of the drug being *dispensed* at the pharmacy. Weird, huh? Well, what gets me to wondering is.. if the drug co.'s *know* what drugs your pdoc is writing for, who's to say they couldn't engage in kicking back money to the pdoc for the scripts? I really didn't think the drug co's had access to that information, but evidently they do.
Mitch
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