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Thursday, February 12, 2015

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Marketing to Doctors (HBO) &OpenPaymentsData

"Go to http://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov and search for your doctor to see if they are receiving pharmaceutical money.
Pharmaceutical reps spend billions of dollars marketing their drugs to doctors. If our doctors asked about our diet and prescribed vegetables, nature and sunshine, how many people could be living free of prescriptions? If they were regulated to prescribe the active ingredient instead of a particular brand, it would minimize the marketing industry's impact on our health.
"Let food be thy medicine, thy medicine shall be thy food."
-Hippocrates"
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