Big Pharma Is Unopposed In Its Domination Of Medical Education

Are you starting to wonder if the pharmaceutical sector might have too much control over medical decision making? You’re not alone if you think so. Many news outlets have begun to raise alarm about the troubling ties between drug manufacturers and medical education. This suggests that Big Pharma may be buying up the doctors of the future. The New York Times “Harvard Medical School in Ethics Quandary”; NPR: “Med Schools Pressed to Cut Drug Firm Ties”Time Magazine puts it better. “Is Drug-Company Money Tainting Medical Education?” 

Before you rush to renew your Time subscription, I have to confess that I, much like the principal investigator of an mRNA vaccine study, may have used some sleight-of-hand: StoryAs The others Not noted As mentioned aboveFrom 2009,.

Is this old news? Not quite. The corruption of medical education is even worse when you look closely at these old stories. This important issue was covered by big names 14 years ago. All of the above stories, as well as many others, were inspired by the American Medical Student Association’s PharmFree Scorecard.

AMSA is the nation’s oldest and largest medical student organization. It has tens of thousand of members, and many past presidents, including Dr. Leana Wen. The PharmFree initiative was established by AMSA in 2002. The PharmFree campaign had become a leader by 2004. March on Pfizer Headquarters In order to “speak out against the pharmaceutical industry’s biased marketing practices” And “persuade the medical community to be more professionally responsible to patients rather than profits.”

PharmFree was not a media sensation until 2007, when they created a scorecard to evaluate the country’s medical schools based on their exposure to Big Pharma. What was the result? The result?

It seems like doctors aren’t marching on Pfizer headquarters but getting marching orders from them. Today it is helpful to check out the PharmFree Scorecard. It doesn’t exist anymore. It has been removed from the AMSA website. It is now dead. Every link in medical literature dating back to the last two decades that sent reformers to the scorecard has been removed. 2016 journal articleIt is still being promoted on the AMSA Website HereThis article praises the scorecard, but links to the current status. “savage garden” Spam site If it wasn’t for the Internet Wayback Machine (behold archived version of the), then in fact spam site would not exist. 2008, 2013?, and 2016 Versions), all trace of the PharmFree Scorecard will have vanished from the Earth.

What has happened? AMSA declined comment, but their website suggests that they believe the pharmaceutical industry’s corrupting of medical education is not worth our attention; instead, it’s the corrupt politicians who deserve our attention. As They put it“Due the changing landscape of conflict

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