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Natural Pain Remedies Gaining Favor With Medical Students

Written by Mr.Jongruk on 3:28 AM

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Advocators of natural pain remedies are delighted with the recent Medical Students' reaction to pharmaceutical manufacturers' gifts. A group called PharmFree is the initiative of the 60,000-strong American Medical Student Association. Their efforts so far include meeting with 40,000 American physicians to urge them not to accept any more "Big Pharma" freebies, and to direct them toward sources of information about drugs that are unaffiliated with the pharmaceutical industry.

The lengths to which pharmaceutical makers go to make sure doctors know about - and write prescriptions for - their drugs is well known. The all-expense-paid trips to Hawaii and other exotic locales, the lavish "educational" conferences in Vegas, the free tickets to sporting events and other perks, and the loitering sales personnel at medical schools. This is not to mention all the free meals, pens, notepads, eye glass cases, free samples of drugs, and other gratis items "Big Pharma" dishes out to doctors.

According to data from the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, this kind of spending rose from just over $12 billion in 1999 to over $22 billion in 2003 creating vast vested interest situations by obligating doctors to "push" their drugs.

Without the Hippocratic Oath to follow, it seems many doctors have lost sight of their high principles. But this reaction from our medical students, gives us hope for the future generation of doctors and their medical ethics. Let us hope that the Hippocratic Oath is returned to its rightful place at Med School graduation."

The medical students' feelings ran high as they staged a protest at Pfizer's New York headquarters, where they dumped tens of thousands of logo-sporting pens back onto the company's doorstep. They replaced these pens with ones of their own � with the PharmFree name and logo emblazoned on them. These actions themselves prove that all is not well in the current distribution of pharmaceuticals. The floods of TV and other media ads have turned Americans into hypochondriacs, and having doctors add their endorsements to them, makes things worse.

The side effects and addictive characteristics of almost every heavily advertised analgesic is becoming better known all the time, and the alternative for sufferers, are the far more beneficial results to be had from natural pain remedies.