Douglas Melnick, MD MPH, a former pharma insider, tells how pharmaceutical companies gather information on the competition while staying within the law. Dr. Melnick, a preventive medicine physician, is a consultant to PharmedOUT.org, a publicly funded project to educate physicians about inappropriate pharmaceutical promotion.
Transcript of this video is available at http://www.pharmedout.org.
PharmedOut is an independent project funded through the Attorney General Consumer and Prescriber Education grant program that educates physicians on how pharmaceutical companies influence prescribing.
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I run The Annie Appleseed Project providing information, education and advocacy around complementary/alternative (CAM), natural and integrative cancer therapies from the patient perspective.
We've called for studies on many issues relating to oncology only to be told by the Pharmas, both privately and publicly: "Ann, we can't patent that". Thus ending the conversation.
Even when I suggested using their drug(s) along with a natural approach, I got the same answer - no patentability, no interest.
Who is it about? Patients or Pharma?
Ann F.
www.annieappleseedproject.org
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