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Find Out If Your Doctor Is Being Paid By Drug Companies To Prescribe Their Drugs

By | January 3rd, 2016 | Modified - January 3rd, 2016
Find Out If Your Doctor Is Being Paid By Drug Companies To Prescribe Their Drugs
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It is unethical for doctors to accept gifts from pharmaceutical companies. It is estimated the drug companies spend between $20 and $57 billion a year and marketing to and influencing doctors to recommend their drugs to their patients.

Imagine how much money these companies most be making to be able to afford that amount of money on direct marketing?

Drug companies spend on average $15,000 on gifts, dinner, travel, and other perks per physician every year to market their drugs to doctors.[1]

This is a serious conflict of interest because doctors can be persuaded to prescribe medicine that may not be the best medicine for their patients. 94% of doctors take gifts from drug companies.

They approve of the practice of receiving gifts from drug companies, but they don’t want their patients to know they are accepting gifts.

It is unethical that this practice exists, but if Congressmen and Congresswomen can be bought who are we to think doctors can’t be bought?

Give Republican Senator Chuck Grassley and round of applause for doing the right thing by inserting the Physician Payment Sunshine Act into the Affordable Care Act. As a result of this Act you are now able to see if your doctor or any other doctor has received gifts from drug companies.

First the first time you are able to search a database and find out if you doctor is being paid off by drug companies. Go to OpenPaymentsData.CMS.gov or Dollars For Docs and search for your doctor. Let us hope your doctor isn’t in the database.

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Sources:
[1] S Chimonas, T A Brennan, D J Rothman. Physicians and drug representatives: exploring the dynamics of the relationship. J Gen Intern Med. 2007 Feb;22(2):184-90.

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Aqiyl Aniys is the author of the book Alkaline Herbal Medicine, the Alkaline Plant Based Diet book, and the children's book, Faith and Justice eat an Alkaline Plant Based Diet." He received a certificate in plant-based nutrition from Cornell University, a BA in Organizational Behavior and Communications from NYU, worked as an elementary school teacher, and studied social work. He enjoys boxing, kick boxing, cycling, power walking, and basically anything challenging, and his alkaline plant-based diet supports all that he does. Learn more about transitioning to avegan diet using the Dr. Sebi nutritional guide.

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