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Abnormal practice of relationship between manufacturers of medicines and some part of medical community has become usual in Russia - Putin В России сложилась ненормальная практика взаимоотношений между производителями лекарств и частью врачебного сообщества - Путин
IFX-News 2009 Oct 9
http://www.finmarket.ru/z/nws/news.asp?id=1304854


Full text:

The Prime-minister Vladimir Putin defined the situation when pharmaceutical
giants pay health professionals for prescribing their medicines impossible
to tolerate.
At the meeting on development of pharmaceutical industry he noted, that
“sometimes even the prescription forms, printed by supplier firms, are being
used”.
According to the Prime-minister, during the last decade “obviously abnormal
practice of relationship between manufacturers of medicines, including
foreign ones, and some part of medical community” has become usual in
Russia.

The Prime-minister noted that pharmaceutical companies have the right to
advertise their products, but they have to do this in a civilized way and be
fully compliant with universally recognized ethical norms and the Russian
legislation.

Vladimir Putin also emphasized that pharmaceutical manufacturers “provide
sponsorship for corporate events, various seminars, including overseas
seminars with trips to warm seas”, which involve thousands of specialists.
“In fact the lobbying systems, disposed in depth, are being created or have
been already created to lobby for the interests of large-scale
pharmaceutical companies, and this vicious practice should to be stopped”, – the Prime-minister declared.
The head of the government thinks that not only legislative bans for such
incomes are needed, but also the introduction of tougher, stricter norms of
medical ethics is needed.

Furthermore, according to the prime-minister, “we should get rid of so
called pharmaceutical representatives, who work in health facilities”, and
“the expert committees on new medicines should not employ specialists who
accept monetary payments” from manufacturers of these medicines.

Премьер Владимир Путин назвал недопустимой
ситуацию, когда фармацевтические концерны доплачивают медицинским
специалистам за то, что они выписывают пациентам производимые этими
компаниями препараты. Причем, заметил он на совещании по развитию
фармацевтической промышленности, “иногда для этого используются даже бланки
рецептов, напечатанные фирмами-поставщиками”. По словам премьера, в
последнее десятилетие в России сложилась “явно ненормальная практика
взаимоотношений между производителями лекарств, в том числе иностранными, и
частью врачебного сообщества”. Как сказал глава правительства,
фармацевтические компании вправе рекламировать свою продукцию, но они должны
это делать цивилизованно и в полном соответствии с общепризнанными
этическими нормами, российским законодательством. В.Путин также подчеркнул,
что производители лекарств “спонсируют корпоративные мероприятия, разного
рода семинары, в том числе с выездом на теплые моря”, которые охватывают
тысячи специалистов. “По сути, создаются или уже созданы глубоко
эшелонированные системы лоббирования интересов крупных фармацевтических
компаний, и эту порочную практику нужно прекратить”, – заявил премьер. Глава
правительства считает, что необходимы не только законодательные запреты на
подобного рода доходы, но и введение более жестких норм врачебной этики.
Кроме того, по его словам, “следует избавиться от так называемых
фармпредставителей, работающих в медучреждениях”, а “в экспертных советах по
новым лекарствам не должны работать специалисты, которые получают денежное
вознаграждение” от производителей этих лекарств.

 

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Far too large a section of the treatment of disease is to-day controlled by the big manufacturing pharmacists, who have enslaved us in a plausible pseudo-science...
The blind faith which some men have in medicines illustrates too often the greatest of all human capacities - the capacity for self deception...
Some one will say, Is this all your science has to tell us? Is this the outcome of decades of good clinical work, of patient study of the disease, of anxious trial in such good faith of so many drugs? Give us back the childlike trust of the fathers in antimony and in the lancet rather than this cold nihilism. Not at all! Let us accept the truth, however unpleasant it may be, and with the death rate staring us in the face, let us not be deceived with vain fancies...
we need a stern, iconoclastic spirit which leads, not to nihilism, but to an active skepticism - not the passive skepticism, born of despair, but the active skepticism born of a knowledge that recognizes its limitations and knows full well that only in this attitude of mind can true progress be made.
- William Osler 1909