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"It is usually left to marketing people to generate enthusiasm through TV ads, product-representative visits to doctors' offices, and sponsored lectures, and to convince practitioners and their patients that the new drug is safer or better than the old drug. They do this by picking some aspect of the drug's properties that theoretically makes it better. For example, when tricyclic antidepressants went off patent, they were replaced by a new generation of drugs called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Additional diagnostic methods include polymerase chain reaction tests, but most doctors' offices do not yet use these. A new 10-minute antigen test for trichomonas is also available. Women who are found to have an infection of T. vaginalis should also be tested for Neisseria gonorrhoeae (GC) and Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) and, if positive for one or both, should then be screened for additional sexually transmitted infections, including syphilis, hepatitis B and C, HIV, herpes type 2 virus, and human papillomavirus." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Since federal law does not allow access to patients through doctors' offices or health records, Judith had to be creative. She examined old tax records to find those who had lived in the area and moved, then, if she was able to track them down, she asked about their health status. She arranged for billboards to be raised alongside the highways in the vicinity. The signs showed three African-American women standing side by side and big bold letters saying "We live near 858 E. Ferry St. We all have Lupus. Are you sick too? Take 5 minutes and call Judith to join the registry." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "The gap between what is happening in today's top diagnostic research labs and the diagnostic struggles that most patients experience in their doctors' offices is vast. CAN WE PREDICT WHO WILL DEVELOP TYPE 1 DIABETES? Nowhere is the ability to predict who will have an autoimmune disease more advanced than in type 1 diabetes research. Here, scientists have been able to identify prediagnostic markers for the disease with staggering accuracy. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the healthy beta cells— the cells that produce insulin—in the pancreas." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"There are two possible sources of information: First, we can collect data from treatment sites, such as visits to doctors' offices, pharmaceutical prescriptions filled, or even hospital admissions; most of the information we consider subsequently in this chapter is from these sources. Second, we can collect data from typical citizens regarding their possible mental problems.4 The National Comorbidity Survey did just that, administering a structured psychiatric interview to a random sample of 8,000 Americans from 1990 to 1992." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Most of the information doctors receive consists of distilled versions of research results that are assembled by the pharmaceutical industry and distributed through promotional materials and the product representatives who visit doctors' offices. Legitimate publications are distributed, but papers that are not favorable are ignored, and favorable data within papers are highlighted to the exclusion of less-favorable data. In addition, drug companies hire academic physicians to give lectures but require that they show only slides that have been approved by the company." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"If they rely on the currently available educational sources, including those on the Internet, those generally found in doctors' offices, and those that decorate health fairs, they will be misled. m Disease Mongering We are a country of obese, hypercholesterolemic, hypertensive, diabetic, os-teopenic, depressed, pitiful creatures perched on the edge of a cliff staring at condors: cancer, heart attacks, strokes, dementia, fractures, and worse. We fear for our future. We teach our children that they, too, must live in fear for their futures." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Colon irrigation machines were commonly used in hospitals and doctors' offices up to the 1930s, until the widespread introduction of chemical laxatives and drugs.8 Colon hydrotherapy, even when done frequently, does not wash out friendly bowel flora. Healthy bacteria are constantly being introduced into the colon from the small intestine. Colon walls, just like the lining in our mouths, are composed of soft tissue and are not harmed by the introduction of water any more than our mouths are." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"The salespeople turned physicians into walking billboards for the drug by giving them OxyContin fishing hats, coffee mugs, and luggage tags. Some doctors' offices received plush stuffed toys with the OxyContin logo. Before Purdue's campaign, doctors had prescribed opioid narcotics?that is, the dozens of different drugs containing opium or any of its derivatives—mostly to patients who were in severe pain from cancer, injuries, or other diseases. Those patients welcomed the strong pain relief that the narcotics delivered despite their many dangers." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "Parents carried feverish children into crowded doctors' offices. Hospitals across the state filled with patients of all ages, from elderly men to the smallest of infants. Nervous Iowans stood in line at any clinic offering flu vaccine, which was hard to find across America that year. Television stations and newspapers carried stories of the youngest Iowans who suffered. Blue-eyed Caitlin Mouw, just twenty months old, was the first Iowan to die. Her parents said the toddler was struck by both the flu and a case of pneumonia." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"More than a hundred centers, clinics, and doctors' offices are participating in this five-year placebo-controlled double-blind study that began in 2003. We know that chelation works with kidney disease, in which toxic metals such as lead and cadmium damage the enzymes in the kidneys, leading slowly to kidney failure. Patients with damaged kidneys improve or stabilize, as shown in randomized controlled studies. The assumption is that chelation removes the offending metals." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"The stories about patients being rushed through doctors' offices turned out not to be true (like the myth of the estate tax causing the loss of the family farm). An article published in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that between 1989 and 1998, the frequency with which people saw their doctors did not change. There was no shortening of visits for managed care patients for either primary or specialty care visits; in fact, the duration of doctor visits actually increased by one to two minutes." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "Company salespeople schmooze and muscle their way into doctors' offices, leaving behind a trail of freebies emblazoned with their products' names. Doctors are invited to learn about new medical breakthroughs at free suppers and conferences in tropical paradises. And most pernicious: companies lure doctors into becoming paid consultants, staff experts, or lecturers, leveraging their relationships and prestige to hawk the companies' products to their peers. Doctors tend to believe that they are immune to drug company influence." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "The number of reps making sales pitches in doctors' offices has tripled over the past 10 years. There is now one full-time drug rep for every four and a half office-based doctors. In 2001, drug companies spent $4.7 billion "detailing" ("industry speak" for drug reps' sales calls) to the 490,000 office-based doctors in the United States, or about $10,000 for each doctor per year. And that doesn't include the cost of the drug samples the reps left. It is difficult for doctors to avoid dealing with sales reps." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Although the rate of increase is nearly constant at first, the absolute number of people recorded as contracting the disease rises faster and faster: as more and more people become contagious, more and more people become infected and are seen in doctors' offices complaining of the first symptoms of the disease. But the rate of increase starts to decline as the pool of yet-to-be-infected susceptibles begins to be depleted." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"That same day, more than forty agents from the FBI and the federal Department of Health and Human Services showed up without notice at Redding Medical Center and the doctors' offices and seized thousands of patient records and other evidence. Two weeks later, the stock price of Tenet Healthcare had tumbled from nearly fifty dollars a share to fifteen dollars." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "The idea behind PPMs was that they would bring good management to doctors' offices, which were, after all, small, and often poorly run, businesses. PPMs promised to provide economies of scale by pooling administrative duties and billing for multiple physicians. You treat the patient, PPMs said to doctors, and leave the business side of medicine to us. Physicians were only too ready to sign up. A few small group practices and solo practitioners sold their businesses outright to PPMs in exchange for a salary and stock options." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "The better the food Howard brought to doctors' offices, the greater her chances of buttonholing a physician when he or she came to the break room to grab a bite to eat. Along with food, she showered her doctors and their staffs with trinkets— pens, sticky notepads, paperweights, tissue dispensers, baseball caps, and stuffed animals for doctors' children, all emblazoned with the name of her drug. Gifts are a critical selling tool for all drug reps." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "As a soldier in Pfizer's army, Howard's first order of business was to keep the supply closets in her doctors' offices stocked with free samples. Each year, drug companies give away an estimated twelve billion dollars' worth of free samples of brand-name drugs, which the industry likes to portray as an act of charity, a way of allowing doctors to treat the uninsured. But most doctors know that the real point of giving away free drug samples is the same reason grocery stores offer you free samples of cookies: to get you to try it and buy a whole box." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"They are marketed as being as effective as the microdermabrasion treatments performed at doctors' offices and by aestheticians. However published research has questioned the efficacy of microdermabrasion. A review of these treatments in the June 2006 issue of Dermatological Surgery (pages 809-814) stated that "Most of the litetature based on subjective and patient-dependent assessment parameters [of microdermabrasion] points toward a marginal improvement in skin appearance following repeated procedures." - Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron, Don't Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me, 7th Edition (Get the book.)

"How about marketing to bored patients waiting endlessly in their doctors' offices? . . . Why not target pregnant women with products offering strong multivitamins, and target new mothers with drinks or foods that rebuild muscle tone and stimulate hair growth?" • Multicultural integrity: "There is no question that successfully tapping into the Hispanic population will be paramount to growth for the companies we follow." Use music: "Music is a key component of the behavior and trend profiles of young, urban, transcultural people . . ." Consider: "How do they feel about religion?" - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"Praise and testimonials for antidepressants and antipsychotics are still found in almost any psychology text, in magazine articles, on "Oprah," in the literature found in doctors' offices and in advertisements on TV and elsewhere. But the truth is, the story I was taught about Thorazine when I took my first psychology course, the story that continues to be repeated over and over, is distorted. That story was the story I just shared with you. I, in fact, purposely presented a distorted story. I did not misquote anyone or falsify any facts myself." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"Many people with fatigue leave their doctors' offices with a prescription for antidepressants. When the physician is not able to find anything wrong, he assumes that the patient is depressed. But I have learned that when patients do not feel well and do not have the energy to perform their duties, they get discouraged and start second-guessing themselves. They wonder if they will ever have the energy to be high-spirited again. As time wears on, they do get down—they become depressed. But this is truly different from a depression you see in a patient who is emotionally depressed." - Ray D. Strand, What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You (Get the book.)

"Nor was the traditional method of going on a hiring binge and carpet-bombing doctors' offices with sales reps. By the mid-nineties, every single major pharmaceutical company had done that. There were now 80,000 pharma reps nationwide. Tales abounded at sales conferences about how there were so many sales reps waiting in hospital parking lots that it was not uncommon for a Lilly rep on his way out to, literally, rear-end a Pfizer rep who was on her way in." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.) "In a typical letter, Thomas Collins, chairman of SmithKline French, warned that "advertising would have the objective of driving patients into doctors' offices seeking prescriptions. We believe that the chances for damaging doctor-patient relations and for encouraging costly competitive battles are real, while the likelihood that meaningful patient education will occur is small." The vice president and general counsel of American Home Products, Charles Hagan, put a finer point on it: "DTC advertising would make [patients] extraordinarily susceptible to product promises." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"Drug representatives often come to doctors' offices with briefcases full of samples of cholesterol-lowering medications. These drug reps are there to talk about how the meds work, and they're armed with all kinds of literature—periodicals and copies of research studies—that "prove" the meds work. Of course, these drug reps aren't talking about studies that show the relationship between excess sugar consumption and heart disease, despite the fact that so much information is out there. As you'll soon learn in SUGAR SHOCK!, we seek to fill in these many, many educational gaps." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"The business model for doctors' offices, clinics, hospitals, insurance companies, and pharmaceutical companies is to develop standardized treatments for symptoms. In order to be profitable businesses they must treat every person's symptoms the same; this, however, can be dangerous and is ineffective. If ten people with diabetes were fully evaluated, there is an excellent chance that each person would have a different cause of their diabetes. One person's diabetes could be partially caused by a genetic weakness acerbated by the chemicals found in processed and fast food." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.) "People forget that medical clinics, hospitals, and doctors' offices are businesses set up to make a profit! People forget that when these doctors purchase an expensive machine, they have to use it or lose all that money. How do you know that when the doctor says you need an expensive treatment that he happens to sell, that in fact you really need it? How could that doctor tell you about a better, more effective, and less expensive treatment option even if he knew about it? The doctor is stuck, he has to pay his bills, he has to get a return on the money he invested in his equipment." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"The calls were made to community clinics and private doctors' offices. Callers read from one of three clinical scenarios that would require follow-up care—pneumonia, high blood pressure or possible ectopic pregnancy. Women using the latter vignette called only obstetrics and gynecology and family medicine clinics. Each caller contacted each clinic twice using the same scenario but saying they had different types of insurance on each of the calls." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"Off-label claims for hGH continue in doctors' offices, on the Internet, and in various subcultures. The demand for the kinds of improvement that the drug can bring has not faltered, and the hopes for biomedical enhancement remain. Sales of hGH in 2004 totaled $622 million (C. Johnson, 2006). Considering hGH as a case of biomedical enhancement allows us to raise some broader issues. In the first place, we can now see that biomedical enhancements have several faces, including normalization, augmentation, and repair." - Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.)

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