Comments on: Paying illegal kickbacks to doctors: just the cost of doing business for Big Pharma? https://ethicalnag.org/2010/12/10/novartis-trileptal/ Marketing Ethics for the Easily Swayed Fri, 26 Aug 2016 00:40:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Sally P. https://ethicalnag.org/2010/12/10/novartis-trileptal/comment-page-1/#comment-18314 Sat, 17 Sep 2011 18:35:09 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=3459#comment-18314 “Kickbacks” = not the word doctors would prefer to use at all to describe the cash they’re willing to accept from their Big Pharma employers. That list of companies and their legal penalities is shocking. Yet doctors apparently see nothing wrong with this widespread practice? SHAME on you, doctors.

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]]> By: Medicine Blog https://ethicalnag.org/2010/12/10/novartis-trileptal/comment-page-1/#comment-11702 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:32:32 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=3459#comment-11702 We have put a link to this article from our website […] epilepsy drug Trileptal ethicalnag.org […]

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]]> By: Carolyn Thomas https://ethicalnag.org/2010/12/10/novartis-trileptal/comment-page-1/#comment-11623 Mon, 11 Apr 2011 20:38:28 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=3459#comment-11623 I wonder the same thing . . .

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]]> By: Lisa C. https://ethicalnag.org/2010/12/10/novartis-trileptal/comment-page-1/#comment-11607 Sun, 10 Apr 2011 20:42:11 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=3459#comment-11607 I wonder if the FDA is receiving kickbacks from Big Pharma and Medical Device manufacturers?!?

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]]> By: The Fuzz https://ethicalnag.org/2010/12/10/novartis-trileptal/comment-page-1/#comment-10956 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:42:35 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=3459#comment-10956 If Novartis did indeed “direct its sales staff to call on psychiatrists, neurologists and pain doctors” to try to boost sales of their epilepsy drug, that seems like a simple no-brainer to me. These big drugmakers act as if normal legal marketing protocols and appropriate drug approvals do not apply to them at all.

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]]> By: Guy L. https://ethicalnag.org/2010/12/10/novartis-trileptal/comment-page-1/#comment-8520 Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:24:58 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=3459#comment-8520 I absolutely agree, Quinn. Drug companies are not paying these doctors out of the goodness of their hearts, but because such “kickbacks” work in driving up brand name drug sales. Thanks for this – love your website!

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]]> By: Quinn Wade https://ethicalnag.org/2010/12/10/novartis-trileptal/comment-page-1/#comment-8335 Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:20:58 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=3459#comment-8335 “…kickbacks included payments to physicians for agreeing to speak to their peers as part of the drug company’s speaker programs, advisory board memberships, entertainment, travel, and meals – all specifically to encourage doctors to prescribe Trileptal and five other Novartis drugs…”

Despite doctors’ insistence that these payments are not “kickbacks” – what an unattractive word! – taking money from corporations for helping to sell more of that corporation’s products means kickbacks, pure and simple. Wake up Doctors!

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