Re: Lupron to Lisa H.
From: andrea (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri Oct 12 17:03:45 2007
What bothers me most is, TAP has been convicted twice of bribing doctors
to prescribe it and paid a billion in fines so far. Why would they have
to be bribed to prescribe a drug if they believed it would help people?
Wouldn't the doctors willingly want to prescribe it?
So that says right there, that maybe the docs thought it was too
dangerous and did not want to prescribe it, but TAP made them offers
they could not refuse, like expensive vacations, medical grants
bonuses.....that's all fact in the law documents. I don't think the
doctors are so innocent in all of this. I think many of them fully know
of the harm this drug can cause, but want the kickbacks that TAP
provides them.
At Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Kristy wrote:
>
>Maggie said: "What makes matters worse is that there aren't many doctors
>who believe that it 'may' be due to Lupron."
>
>Well, that's because the reps when they pitch a medication (and not just
>for Lupron) they are only supposed to focus strictly on the positive
>effects of the medication and not the negative other than to say that
>the side effects are mild. If the reps were to tell the doctors the
>truth about the kind of problems can cause when it comes to side effects
>on the severe front then that rep would be in trouble for not making the
>sale. And if they don't make enough sales they don't get paid and
>eventually could be fired.
>
>I would be careful about reporting it to TAP though because they are
>going to try and deny it. How I know this is because we tried something
>similar when my mom reported a side effect from one of the Diabetic oral
>meds she tried to the company that made that medication. The people
>representing the company checked the information they had on their
>product and couldn't find anything about the side effect. The reason
>why is because it fell in to the category that is stated on the
>prescribing info sheet that says, "other side effects not listed may
>occur". They have to state that in there by law along with some of the
>other severe reactions to the medication (this is with any medication).
>
>Kristy :)
>
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>Kristy :)
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