pharma’s influence on medical school curriculum and education. Because of this, physicians are deliberately trained to focus on diagnosing and treating disease with medication and/or surgery, rather than on promoting good health naturally and nutrition. A 2003 Study found that nearly half of medical school faculty, who serve on Institutional Review Boards (IRB) to advise on clinical trial research, also serve as consultants to the pharmaceutical industry.
Renowned MD Cardiologist Slams Medical Education & says We have “ An Epidemic of Misinformed Doctors” - Collective Evolution
in her outgoing editorial titled “Is Academic Medicine for Sale?”, former Editor of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), Dr. Marcia Angell called for stronger restrictions on pharmaceutical stock ownership and other financial incentives for researchers. She said that growing conflicts of interest are tainting science and “It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published or to rely on the judgement of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.” (source). She left the NEMJ in 2000. Two years later the NEJM announced that they would accept journalists who accept money from drug companies. An ABC report revealed that $2 billion a year is spent by drug companies for over 314,000 events that doctors attend.
During the five-year period between publications and expressions of Concern regarding the Vioxx controversy, it has been estimated that Merck paid NEJM as much as US$836,000 for article reprints that Merck used or promotional purposes.
Dr. Richard Horton, current Editor-inChief of another prestigious peer-reviewed medical journal, The lancet, said, “The case against science is straightforward: Much of the scientific literature, perhaps, half, may simply be untrue.” (source)
It also noted that in clinical trials there is a 90 percent chance that the drug will be perceived as effective. In other words, money can buy any ‘scientific” result they want.
Source: http://www.mercola.com/2004/jul/7/healthcare_death.htm
Next month be sure to see IATROGENESIS-Part 2 with several more examples of where iatrogenesis is prevalent.
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