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Conflict Of Interest Issues Raised By Drug Company Freebies Given To Doctors

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by naucoming4u June 26, 2008 10:14 PM EDT
Disease(s) and war are far more profitable than...

...health and peace!
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by naucoming4u June 26, 2008 10:13 PM EDT
"Pre-hypertension"

"Pre-diabetic"

Before the big pharma companies realized they could buy off our doctors like they do with our politicians...

...there used to be a more defined line to determine if you had diabetes or high blood pressure and heart disease.

Yes, advancements in science have found new ailments and treatments for those ailments. But where can trust be found when there are companies who depend on diseases, (mental or physical), to keep their profits flowing?!
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by j2921610e June 26, 2008 10:00 PM EDT
And to add insult to malpractice, have you not sat in a Doctor''s waiting room, 45 minutes past your appointment time, and observed a well dressed, wide smiling, young person walk right up to the receptionist and then right in to the Doctor? The brief case full of samples and the jokes with the receptionist about the expensive luncheon last week give him away as the drug salesman.
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