How Do Pharmaceutical Companies Impact The Prescribing Process
This source is good because it shows how pharmaceutical companies impact the prescribing process significantly. They do this not only by paying doctors to prescribe and giving free samples of medication for those same doctors to give to patients but by advertising to the patients themselves. Anything can be over sold, even real diseases. Medicine use to cure diseases and now diseases just become more common. “70 percent of the time, if a patient asks for a drug the doctor will give it to them because doctors see their job as a business and their patients as customers”(Bell). If 70 percent of prescriptions are given to patients because the patient wants the medication, how many people are on medications they do not need to be on, and when there