Dolo or not, here's why pharma freebies to doctors continue

Only a statutory medical ethics code can free prescriptions from the influence of freebies.

Sanjay Nagral
Aug 23, 2022, Times of India

It is one of healthcare’s open secrets. Scandals involving freebies to doctors by pharma companies make news with predictable periodicity. The relationship between the medical profession and pharmaceutical industry has provoked intense scrutiny and attempted regulation across the globe. India is no exception.
In 2018 when speaking in London about the high cost of drugs, PM Modi drew the ire of doctors after alluding to pharma-sponsored trips by doctors to foreign countries as an obstacle to them prescribing cheaper generic medicines.
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