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General practitioners get lots of mail : Comments
By Andrew Gunn, published 12/12/2007Fortunately, the pendulum in medical circles seems to be swinging away from the solicitations of Big Pharma.
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Posted by JamesH, Thursday, 13 December 2007 5:31:02 AM
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The current affairs program questioned the process through which a drug needed to go through before it became available to the australian public.
A few years after the program went to air, another program discovered that this miracle drug had been implicated in the deaths of patients taking it in both the UK and the US. Fortunately for Australians the drug was never approved for sale in this country.
In a strange and rather distorted way, current affairs programs firstly criticise the government for not making drugs available and then criticise the government for not protecting australians from medications that have undesirable effects.