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Subtly Bribed By Pharmaceutical Companies

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When a sick patient goes to a doctor, they expect the doctor to provide them with the best treatment for their illness. Are doctors really giving the best possible treatment when they are being subtly bribed by pharmaceutical companies. Pharmaceutical companies use the most effective promotional methods that they can to increase their profit margin. They have legal obligations to maximize profit for shareholders, as well as self-interest in maximizing income for staff and for the company as a whole (Jureidini & Mansfeild, 2001). With over 80,000 drug companies representatives spending a combined $19 billion promotional budgets visiting doctors daily it is important to discuss the implications this may have on doctor prescribing habits (Moynihan, …show more content…

Pharmaceutical companies are for profit thus they must continue to sell their products in order to have the funds to keep making advancements and development develop new medications. “Drug promotion aims to overtly and covertly alter people thinking and feeling, motivating them to increase the use of product, service, or idea and/or increase the price that can be obtained” (Jureidini & Mansfeild, 2001). One of the ways pharmaceutical companies directly market their products to doctors is by info doing informational lunches and dinners with doctors. These dinners can …show more content…

“The pharmaceutical industry provides a substantial proportion of the several billion dollars spent on [continuing medical education] annually and uses that support as a marketing tool. The companies mission is to sell its products and use its participation in [continuing medical education] to further that end” (Relman, 2001, p. 2009). The pharmaceutical companies can easily spend billions of dollars on advertisements because they are making significantly more selling the medicines. A few of the ways pharmaceutical companies advertise directly to doctors have ethical flaws that will be discussed in this

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