JAMA says doctors should stop accepting bribes from drug companies

The Journal of the American Medical Association is rocking the boat in conventional medicine. An article in JAMA has suggested that doctors should stop accepting bribes from drug companies.

The doctor bribery problem has reached such a high level of ridiculousness that even JAMA, which usually plays the role of blowing the pro-drug propaganda horn, has noticed there is a problem. In fact, it has suggested a course of action that, if adopted, might actually reign in drug company bribes and restore a bit of honesty to the world of medicine. But that's only if it is widely adopted, and that's about as likely as asking a heroin addict to agree to stop shooting up.

Specifically, the anti-bribery proposal would:

• Prohibit doctors from accepting free drug samples.
• Exclude doctors who have financial ties to drug companies from serving on the hospital panels that determine which medicines should be on the preferred prescribing lists.
• Prohibit drug companies from providing direct financing for educational programming.
• Prohibit medical faculty from belonging to pharmaceutical companies' speakers' bureaus or publishing drug company articles as their own.
• Require faculty members that receive financial support from pharmaceutical companies to post them on public Internet sites.

Reading this list is fascinating all by itself, because it makes you realize that all these things are going on right now.

Courtesy of newstarget.com