February 06, 2013
Following unpleasant "communications" received, I must specify the following.
UNFORTUNATELY, I HAD TO SUIT FOR DEFAMATION AGAINST SOME WHO USE – EVEN THE BLOG – MORE TO VENT THEIR FRUSTRATION AND INJURE THOSE WHO DO THEIR DUTY TO COMPLAIN AND EXPRESS FREE OPINIONS IN THE AREA OF ART. 21 OF THE CONSTITUTION than to actively contribute to a definitely worthwhile debate.
Pharmaceutical reps can be useful if they are honest and correct and if they don't have relationships with pharmaceutical companies…but how can this be possible?
Or they must be controlled more and expel from their ranks those who tarnish their profession, not me, as in the cases which, only as a minimal example, I report below:
1) Public prosecutors of Busto Arsizio and Rimini:
the so-called "clean doctors" operation in which 67 doctors in 15 different regions would be investigated for having received sums of money, trips abroad and valuables from the pharmaceutical company Sandoz with the aim of increasing the sales of certain types of drugs .
During the investigation, the existence of a network made up of twelve scientific informants and executives of the pharmaceutical company Sandoz would seem to have been discovered, in charge of making agreements with the white coats.
- The whistleblowers would have urged the doctors under investigation (including specialists in nephrology and endocrinology) to increase the prescriptions of some drugs, with the inclusion of new patients in therapy. "In some circumstances - underline the investigators - the doctors did not hesitate to increase the sums demanded" and "senior executives of the pharmaceutical industry met the doctors personally".
– To justify the exchange of money, it would seem that the scientific representatives produced false documents certifying the sums for consultancy or study activities, contributions to congresses or seminars and trips to participate in international meetings.
– Among the suspects, in fact, there would also seem to be the owner of a travel agency.
– From the documents acquired during the investigation, it would also seem that a real tariff emerged, over two thousand euros for each new child to whom treatment was administered. Overall, the doctors would have received over 500,000 euros in gifts and money.
– The alleged crimes could range from criminal conspiracy, corruption, instigation to corruption, fraud against the National Health Service, from forgery to comparison.
2) Milan Public Prosecutor's Office
System that involves two managers of the company who live in Formia and various general practitioners of the national health service who carry out their activities in the province of Latina as well as scientific informants of the "Rec
