Re: Physicians, Educate Yourselves...

[Guest guest]

Wow! I say let's start a grassroots campaign to have an Angell/Relman ticket

for the next presidential election! Can it be that there are still doctors out

there who do not judge the effectiveness of their practice by the thinness of

their prescription pad? Let's see if the media start begging for these two

brave souls to expound on their statements. Oh, wait! That would mean biting

the advertising hand that feeds TV networks, wouldn't it?

Terry Bearden

Buggy <heather_buggy@...> wrote:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/30/opinion/l30drug.html

" The medical profession should break its dependence on the pharmaceutical

industry and educate its own. Until then, the industry should come clean

about all the money it spends influencing doctors' prescribing habits.

Marcia Angell, M.D.

Arnold S. Relman, M.D.

Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 28, 2004

The writers served as editors in chief of The New England Journal of

Medicine. "