who is the product
2015-07-06 20:30:16.907345+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Yesterday, PhDecay @PhDefunct tweeted:
What is the maximum amount of money your doctor could make in payments from drug companies before you would start feeling uncomfortable?
In this era of advertising paying for everything, I thought that was an interesting question: because, like education, the customer is not the payer, there's a pretty strong externality here....
Anyway, this interesting bit on Flibanserin ("the female Viagra™"™) today reminded me of that:
New (and free to read) in JAMA: Evaluation of Flibanserin: Science and Advocacy at the FDA http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2389384 …
Hypoactive sexual desire disorder: inventing a disease to sell low libido -- Journal of Medical Ethics http://jme.bmj.com/content/ear...8/medethics-2014-102596.abstract …
A loud handful of sexmed MD proponents of #flibanserin received at least $1.5mil in industry payments combined from 8/2013 to 12/2014.
After looking them up in https://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/ it is hard to see any of the flibanserdocs as credible on the topic of pharm interventions.