When around 150 physicians were interviewed, more interesting facts came to light. These include:-
- 71% doctors said that sometimes MRs tried to persuade them on to make irrational prescriptions.
- Nearly 82% of the doctors believed that MRs concealed vital facts such as major adverse effects (99%).
- Around 64% of the doctors believed that refusal of freebies and drug samples can reduce prices of drugs.
- 98% of the respondent doctors did not know of ethical guidelines for drug promotion.
- 89% of the doctors interview expressed their total dependency on the MR for information about the drugs, yet 75% of the doctors believed there to be a discrepancy prevailing in what was said and what was the truth in actual practice when it came to efficacy of drugs. Source
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