Big Pharma is a massive business and its responsibility is return on investment to its investors, not you and me. One of the biggest sources of income is from doctors writing prescriptions. A study from the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center that was published in the February issue of Medical Care reported that it is possible to change the effect of Big Pharma's brainwashing of doctors in training by restricting access to doctors in training.
In this study, 1652 psychiatrists in training from 162 residency programs were tracked after completing their training. One group graduated prior to the reduction in this conflict of interest and the other graduated afterward. The outcome of the study was to see if there was a reduction in how many prescriptions in the group that graduated later; in fact there was a substantial reduction! So, it looks like med schools are finally starting to protect doctors in training from the pharmaceutical industry.
