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Re:Ex-Netflix VP found guilty of awarding tech contracts in ... by viraptor on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @09:32AM (#27049583)
It's a generalisation that I'm not sure is helpful. There's an unhealthy lobbying from pharma reps - true. But the scale of the problem depends on the country on the clinic, and on the doctor.

"how physicians prescribe medicines" is in my opinion a bit shitty way to describe it to be honest, because there's also the whole scale from outright fraud and pushing addiction, all the way to offering a specific type of what would be prescribed anyway. (With pharmacies offering substitutes and generics)

There are also regions which try to counteract this with, for example, forcing prescriptions to list the active ingredient rather than a brand of medication. (with fun sideeffects like meningitis vaccine taking ~6 lines to describe)

"We have serious problems with pharma influence" - yes. "how physicians prescribe medicines" - unless you qualify that with more information - it's FUD.

Re:Ex-Netflix VP found guilty of awarding tech contracts in ... by pessimizer on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @02:36PM (#27053880)
The scale of the problem in the US is something like 2 billion a year, so for us it's 1) serious corruption, and 2) the rule, not the exception.
Re:Ex-Netflix VP found guilty of awarding tech contracts in ... by hulitu on Thursday May 06, 2021 @04:07AM (#27060376)
It's not only in the US. In EU it's the same with some countries worse than others. There are doctors which do not pay for their vacation and prescribe almost only expensive medicines because "they are better as generics". This corruption is helped by the fact that a lot of doctors work in small clinics so they are easier to bribe.
Re:Ex-Netflix VP found guilty of awarding tech contracts in ... by viraptor on Thursday May 06, 2021 @08:51AM (#27062431)
> It's not only in the US. In EU it's the same with some countries worse than others.

[citation needed] [details needed]

Sure, there is some effect and there is high influence over specific doctors (https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/7/9/e016408 for a good start). But the sweeping generalisations are not the quality of contents I expected here.