PhRMA defends itself from the heat surrounding its relationship with physicians:
Who better to know about the scientific complexities of prescription medicines than the companies that create them? Pharmaceutical experts are a key source of information for healthcare providers on side effects and new studies regarding medicines they may prescribe. Clearly, patients benefit from these exchanges. Picture the opposite. What would a patient’s reaction be if a doctor shrugged his or her shoulders in confusion when asked about a drug that may be life changing?
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The problemis that the phamaceutical companies are biases sources of information and that bias greately skews what information they give–so no, they are not the best source of information.
Far better for the physician to shake his head in confusion when prompted the patient for the newest drug, than to proceed with fallacious information that he thinks is factual but is another one of a long string of Pharma distortions and outright lies.
Usually the condition the patient is asking for the new drug for is one of the new pseudodiseases that our parents considered minor inconveneinces and which do not warrant the risk and expense of the new drug which provides marginal efficacy and has not been around long enough to establish long-term safety.
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